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Learner

In the classroom

• Edward is a 15-year-old blind high school student.
• Edward is in a classroom with other students.
• As part of demonstrating an idea, the instructor of the class plays a video for the class to watch. The video is on the web, and the instructor goes to the website to stream it in real-time (that is, the video is not offline).
• The video is composed primarily moving images and diagrams with little narration, and does not have caption or subtitle alternatives.
• Edward needs this video described to him while most of his classmates do not.

Floe's role:

• Earlier in the year, Edward's teacher spent time individually with each student to create a "learning profile", describing the ways they learned best.
• Edward's profile included a preference for alternatives to visuals.
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At home

• Maria is a 22-year-old university student with uncorrectable blurry vision.
• Text needs to be larger for her, preferably in high contrast, and image images with fine details need to either be enlargeable with details maintained, or have some text alternative.
• Maris is at home, working on an assignment which requires some research online.
• Maria uses Google to start her research.
• Like many users, she scans for a promising sounding link, and clicks through several before finding something appropriate.
• More problematically, she spends additional time following promising links but ultimately filtering past them because of their usability (e.g., too many images without good resolution or alternatives, or non-adjustable contrast)

Floe's role:

, if Maria has a full prior profile:

• Some time earlier, Maria spent time creating an exhaustive profile of her modality preferences.

Floe's role, if Maria has a partial prior profile:

• Some time earlier, Maria spent time creating a

Floe's role, if Maria does not have a prior profile:

• Maria filters past many sites because of usability/accessibility issues, but on one site with promising content, she discovers functionality to

Multiple locations

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Educator using content

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Educator producing content

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