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Spreading the word on Darfur
- 20 Apr 07, 04:15 PM
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (), and , an application to let the user look at satellite images from around the world, have collaborated to provide access to videos, photographs and witness accounts about the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. This is a great example of the use of a popular web 2.0 application to create an interesting, interactive and thought provoking experience, but sadly it is not one open to all to share.
By downloading a special package from USHMM, you can use Google Earth to zoom into Darfur, and click on icons to reveal photographs, videos and testimonials. Try as I might however, I just couldn't navigate around the application at all with my screen reader. Whether an application intended to display satellite images should be accessible or not becomes something of a moot point when it is used to deliver information above and beyond just images. For example, when the witness accounts are written down in text, and could therefore be perfectly accessible, it is a shame they can't be delivered in a format that would allow everyone to read them.
The USHMM website is in the process of making itself more accessible, and although hard to find, there are transcripts from the videos there. They are also hoping to provide close captioning for the videos in the future.
The USHMM website however, does not provide all the information available on Google Earth, so If this popular application is to develop and provide additional content, then they must take it's accessibility into consideration, as they have done with other Google tools.
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hi i am a student at Narbonne high school.. in my mass media class we are learning about genocide around the world. Whats happening in Darfur is very sad and sicken..i pay great respect to those that lost their lives and those that survived and are surviving such cruelty
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