[senit] New Mozilla email application with symbols.

Absolutely! The largest single group of pupils with additional support needs

Paul's analysis is perfect - and it is important to encourage those who can 
build these applications. Many of us, in 2005, begged Charles L. Chen to 
develop a successor to FoxyVoice - a dyslexia-geared version of his FireVox 
Add-on. And the result was the brilliant CLiCk, Speak that we are using with 
a wide range of students and workers. I know many who'd be thrilled with an 
effective symbol-based email system. 

Ira Socol
Special Education Technology Scholar
CEPSE
College of Education
Michigan State University 

Paul Nisbet writes: 

> 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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> 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 
> 