{"id":111,"date":"2006-03-11T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/11\/a-quick-synthesis\/"},"modified":"2006-03-11T10:41:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T15:41:38","slug":"a-quick-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/11\/a-quick-synthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an early observation but as I&#8217;m getting on the road soon for VSTE, I thought I&#8217;d synthesize my first impressions:  there is a tension between using text-only or incorporating graphics:<\/p>\n<p>1. Text is accessible to everyone, including the visually impaired, thanks to screen readers.<br \/>\n2. Text is easy on the bandwidth, something that those of us blessed with high speed access should be sensitive to.<br \/>\n3. Graphics make it easier to navigate, particularly for students who have been raised on graphics.<br \/>\n4. Easily interpreted graphics make it possible for those who speak diverse languages to be together in a MOO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an early observation but as I&#8217;m getting on the road soon for VSTE, I thought I&#8217;d synthesize my first impressions: there is a tension between using text-only or incorporating graphics: 1. Text is accessible to everyone, including the visually impaired, thanks to screen readers. 2. Text is easy \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2006\/03\/11\/a-quick-synthesis\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}