Lecture/ Tutorial/ Reflection

ACCESSIBILITY AND DESIGN

This week lecture is based on Accessibility and Design and it was done by Geneen. Starting off she gave us a brief idea that will be doing Video editing after returning from Christmas. But the lecture was focused on Disabled people and their accessibility to the Internet world. It was a good point to take notice off, as many of us would not think of disabled people when developing a website. Thinking of people's who are colour blind its really hard for them to visit football clubs websites, as they design the website on the football clubs uniforms for example Liverpool football club website is red and this may cause problem to colour blind people. Now the government has passed a law the DDA (Disability and Discrimination Act) in 1995 and it was updated in 2001 the Special educational needs and disability Act. Since then the technology have helped disabled people by designing products for special need people for example a keyboard for a person with one arm and Voice recognition software for people who don't have both the arms. Also now the websites should be design considering the Law against Disability Discrimination, you can use Bobby software on websites which detect problem which causes to Disabled people.

FLASH

In today's tutorial we followed the lecture 9 which was Tween in Tween. The aim of today's tutorial was to show how to place a symbol within a symbol. You can do this by typing a word on stage and then go to modify and choose convert to symbol and type a name for a file as for me it was web. Click OK then delete the file it will be saved in Library so it is safe. We then click to insert and choose New symbol and make sure that its on movie clip then click OK. Then you can drag the file from library and then Right click on frame 10 and move the image or word anywhere you want, then click on the center of frame and from bottom choose Create motion, test the movie and save it. Then repeat the steps again to create more symbols and when finished click scene1 also you can differentiate Graphic and Movie clip by its logo.

REFLECTION

The main aim of the lecture was to design website which are Accessibale to diabled people and easy for them to use. This point is ignored by many of us, but now there are laws which protect the rights of disable people and now their are many new products which are coming for easy use for handicaped people aswell. Continuing with the tutorial we leran how to tween in tween and considering the lecture I used light colour to help colour blind people see without any difficulties.