Transcript for the video of Ann and Lizzie being interviewed
Interviewer
Hi Ann.
Ann
Hello.
Interviewer
Ok, so you use websites, don’t you?
Ann
Yes.
Interviewer
What do you go on to websites to find out about?
Ann
Groups…TV stars…anything.
Interviewer
What do you like to find out about?
Ann
Trisha…Jerry Springer…Ready Steady Cook…Coronation Street…
Interviewer
So you like your TV?
Ann
Yes.
Interviewer
And you like music as well don’t you? Ok…What do you find difficult about some of the websites that you go to? Can you think of anything?
Ann
Some of them are too small. And some of them are big. That’s big…good. The small ones I don’t use.
Interviewer
When you say small, do you mean small writing?
Ann
Yes.
Interviewer
What makes websites easier to use?
Ann
To read.
Interviewer
What things could people do on their websites that would make it easier for you?
Ann
Less pic… more pictures and less writing.
Interviewer
Is there anything else people can do?
Ann
There’s all sorts of things you can do on the computer.
Interviewer
Can you think of a website that you go on to that you really enjoy? That you really like and you find it easy to use?
Ann
Sometimes I use Google. Google, on the computer.
Interviewer
How do you find it to use? Easy?
Ann
Little bit easy and a little bit hard.
Interviewer
Is there anything difficult about some of the websites that you go on to? What do you find difficult?
Ann
Sometimes small…more writing less pictures.
Interviewer
You want more writing and less pictures?
Ann
No I like more pictures, less writing.
Interviewer
That’s what you want? So you think that a lot of websites have writing that’s too small for you?
Ann
It’s got to be big and bold.
Interviewer
And what is it about using pictures that helps you, that makes it easier?
Ann
To see.
Interviewer
Ok. Does it help you to understand what the website is talking about?
Ann
Yes.
Interviewer
So if we all had more pictures and made them bigger that would help you?
Ann
Mmm.
Interviewer
So if we wanted to change how we made websites, to make it easier for people with learning disabilities, what would you ask us to do?
Ann
Change.
Interviewer
And what would you ask us to change?
Ann
Make it bigger. The pictures, no…the writing.
Interviewer
Ok, thank you.
New speaker
Lizzie
My name is Lizzie and I like performing.
Interviewer
What kind of performing do you do?
Lizzie
I sing.
Interviewer
Do you sing in a band?
Lizzie
Yeah.
I go to YouTube to see what’s happening with me…I go to Heart n Soul website so see what’s happening with them. I um go on to the music to see what downloads I can get for my pod and stuff like that.
Interviewer
So um do you find it difficult to use websites?
Lizzie
Yeah.
Interviewer
Can you tell us why?
Lizzie
Because there’s no pictures, or no there’s no pictures or the person… there’s no pictures or the computer doesn’t speak to you how to access this, like something that says ‘Oh welcome to Google, um put your name in this box here’… something like that.
Interviewer
Um…there’s a difference between websites that are made for people with learning disabilities and websites that are what we call mainstream…
Lizzie
Yeah, but the thing is mainstream should be… ok… Ok, the mainstream websites, yeah, should include people with learning disabilities. Should include it. Because, though we got disabilities, we still want to keep up with the times, we still want to know what’s going on. In the internet world.
And if everyone could consider or think about when you’re doing a web page or a website people with disabilities as well, then… then we won’t feel like we’re singled out cos we are really.
We feel like that, that we’re singled out from the normal people with… ok from the mainstream to the not mainstream.