"Chalk: a proposal for a child's web 2.0 authoring tool"

Design for children of all abilities and adults with learning disabilities or low literacy.

An open source web authoring tool that enables anyone pre-literate to publish accessible and valid code

What would we like to do?

Play games, make friends, collaborate, select symbols, draw or type, link to, annotate and label resources.

Releases

• search by image or text
• irc chat & email

Essential requirements:

• simple GUI
• keyboard support
• sound support
• P2P
• trace

References:

• One laptop per child minimal hardware
• i-sketch p2p drawing game
• sand box multi-touch intuitive & interface-free
• jsquiggle drawing together
• Tuxpaint with sound
• Inkscape children's version: use, !copy, css
• label & annotate human computation
• Ramble Danbri on icon selection with wordnet
• Dasher with Bliss
• YouTube social video networks
• Jaiku social text networks
• Seascape cocoa init
• scratch authoring tool after Lego and Squeak
• Chalkeye from gnote.org
• Non-photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection

Papers, talks...

• Communication with symbols, from the web to the internet and beyond paper to be published in JAT 09/08 ask...
• Putting the User at the Heart of the W3C Process talk to CETIS
• Accessibility in a Web 2.0 world? BBC Podcast
• Formal Objection to WCAG2 in respect of the needs of people with low literacy

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