[senit] New Mozilla email application with symbols.

Absolutely! The largest single group of pupils with additional support needs
in Scotland are those with moderate/severe learning difficulties (25%), who
are likely to benefit from symbol support. Doesn't mean they would be all be
able to use symbol supported email, of course, but if we have screen readers
so that visually impaired users can email (only 1.5% of those with
additional support needs) and text-reader tools to help those with specific
learning difficulties/dyslexia (20%) use email then we should also have
tools for non-readers.

(These statistics are in a report we recently completed for the Scottish
Government - see www.booksforall.org.uk for the report, summary and more
info.)

Paul 

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Paul D. Nisbet
Senior Research Fellow
Communication Aids for Language and Learning (CALL) Centre
Moray House School of Education
University of Edinburgh
Paterson's Land, Holyrood Road
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Tel. 0131 651 6236     Fax 0131 651 6234
email Paul.Nisbet at ed.ac.uk
http://callcentrescotland.org.uk 
http://callcentrescotland/digitalexams 
http://booksforall.org.uk

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Subject: [senit] New Mozilla email application with symbols.

New Mozilla email application with symbols.

Is there community interest in using email with symbols?

Mozilla have asked us to demonstrate interest.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet