 A rhoi, mae'r adreffaith bryd. Ond yr adreffaith bryd, gwybod am y plwyd yn ddod, amddai St Sindbar, i wych yn digwydd. Yn ddod y gyfaint am ddod. Ond oes iawn, mae'r erin, hwysbeth bwysig. Rydych chi'n adreffaith bryd, ond oed ddod yn ddod! ac mae'r adreffaith bryd yn diod eich pr оказu I thank the organisers for producing a screen, but I'm not going to use slides. It might be because Steve Jobs suggested that if you need slides that show you don't know what you're talking about. I'll leave that for people to think about. But in my case, I was unsure whether I'd be able to cope with PowerPoint at the level of inebriation that I had. But I will return to the problem of accessibility of PowerPoint for people who are inebriated later. I'm also very pleased that nobody's got a laptop. It's really great to actually give your talk where there's nobody in the audience who are doing their email. If anybody wants to Twitter, can I dictate a tweet? That's the word. This lecture is magnificent. Or much more importantly, please buy his book. Out of the kingdom of it, there are somewhere here, there are flyers from my book, and please it's the only way I can afford to come to conferences like this. So older people, older people. Julie Brewer reminded us that Bill loved to constantly challenge the stereotype of older people, particularly illiterate and so on. This stereotype is not universally true. It seems to me age doesn't keep us away from the joys of technology, but the infrastructure keeps technology away from the age. It's not so much about technology being older people phobic, or in some cases just people phobic. I'm really pleased to be at a W whatever it is conference, where they produced a pamphlet, a programme, which is completely older, nobody over 40 can read this, because it has to be further away from you than it is here. I congratulate the organisers of the W whatever it was conference, to produce an inaccessible booklet, and at least it's produced on the same platform, in that you don't have to be blind not to be able to know where you're going, because the signage is almost impossible to understand. We talked about older people, whatever it's called, in Madrid W48 talked about older people, and it said it was entitled, web accessibility for older users, are we there yet? The answer is no. As one goes older, as we will find out, it's harder to unlearn familiar tasks. Some of my older equations spent years trying to realise that you pressed start to stop your computer. Now, Microsoft removed that option, so I learnt that you stopped it by pressing start, and this obsession with change explains the disaster that an older, but competent window user on YouTube has called how real people will use Windows 8. Now I recommend that to everybody to see the challenges that are produced by the Microsoft Corporation. Developing computer systems for older people, not just in the interest of my colleague and I, and a few other geriatrics, I should remind you all, all the younger members, and that's almost everybody, the only way to avoid old age is by premature death. Technologic equivalent of the young considering themselves immortal is that they also tend to believe they would never have any trouble with technology because of course they're technologically illiterate, dear things. This myth assumes that both they and the technology will stay the same. It's reported that the major interactive interaction issues told that people have are cognitive related. A subject which attracts little attention within the community. So what about people like my good self, who you are now beginning to realise are cognitively challenged? And technology is going to change, I have to remind you. It's not just static now, it's going to change and so are you. So the challenges that people like Bebo and myself have are going to be the same, as your challenges are going to be the same as ours now. When I was a lad, there were a whole host of reasons of the problem, when I was a lad, hardware was nuts and bolts, a joint was something you ate on a Sunday, a stud was for holding your collar on your shirt, bootop was preparing for a walk in the country and going all the way meant staying on the bus till it got to the terminus. Equally metaphors, which young designers are so familiar, are a problem. Which way does the scrollbar move the text? Does it move it up or move it down? Now, after many years, I've worked that out. But whenever I use Google Maps, not very often, I still can't work out the map, all it seems to go in the wrong direction. My other problem with web accessibility is I found it five minutes ago, and where the bloody hell is it now? The other problem is what is called a technical generation effect, that those things you have learned, and most of you are over 25, you're beyond of them, those things you've learned before you're 25 are deeply embedded. Yup, so you'll remember them forever. The things you're learning now, the middle age and older people, are lost and gone forever. So most people in this room are very familiar with nested memories, but future operating systems will contain many exotic interface technologies, which you won't be familiar with, just as I'm not familiar with nested menu. So, you wear it. I have a vision of a group of technophiles in 20 years' time, and one says to the other, you know, I could even use this stuff, but these interaction systems are completely beyond me, and the other replies, you know, these brain interfaces are not designed for older brainers. I might think this is cool, a thermostat in my room. So what should we, what should this community do about these challenges? Should we produce more guidelines? I hear you sure cry. Guidelines have their place, and they're excellent suggestions for making sites accessible to disabled people, but many I think are focused on what I call traditional disabled people. So intelligent, highly motivated, with a single disability. That doesn't apply to people like Bebo and me. And also, I'm sorry, you shouldn't have been sitting there. But also, what does this significant evidence of accessible but unusable sites tell us about current guidelines and methods? How many of us have found, and there are research to show that, why did current designers ignore current guidelines? How does this affect, how does this reflect on the accessibility and usability of guidelines? I've got something hidden down here. I personally grew up, sorry, I personally gave up producing an accessible version of the abstract for this conference when I read the how to create an accessible PDF which is linked to this conference site. I noted the conference task, and the comments in that 25, 25, what appeared to me, 50 page document, would have been incredibly useful to someone to expect all their lives to create an accessible PDF. All I want is for you to see what it is. And the same applies to the web accessibility for all the users report. It's got incredibly useful information in it, but there's absolutely no summary. I haven't been completed yet, have you, David? The literature review, yeah? What does this tell us about the importance of older people in the world of W4F, whatever it's called, that we can't even finish the young accessibility for all the users report? It needs a short summary for people who just want a few ideas as to how to get on with it. I plead for this task to be continued. I nearly decided, even before tonight, to change my title to the usability of accessibility guidelines because we need to find a new way of influencing web designers. Is it good enough to make websites easy to use? Many old people, including me, I'm not sure about people, don't see the point in using the web and don't find any joy in using it. Why not look for a way of making the use of the web a delight for people rather than just a scary experience that they don't want to repeat? The first time I used the web, I was very proud, I booked a ferry and this needs some British geographical information to understand the joke. I booked a ferry for my holiday and I was really proud of it and I came home and I showed my wife the print out and she said, do we really want to go from Belfast to Stranra at the beginning of our holiday and Stranra to Belfast at the end of our holiday? That cost me 25 quid and ever since then I've been worried about doing anything on the web. I don't find it a delight, I find it a worrying experience and I'll get another comment about David Slow. He asserted the preeminence of user experience in accessing web accessibility. User experience is what he ought to really be about. If you don't believe me, which I'm sure most of you don't, Alex Kay of Xerox is reported to have said, Steve Jobs understands desire and Apple's growth has more or less confirmed the importance of understanding desire. I believe we should focus much more, these things go, following you. Of these we should focus much more on user's desire and less on more technologically exciting options that cope with inaccessible data. So let's focus on improving design rather than how to cope with bad design, improving the quality of mainstream technology. How should we do this? I think we should focus on process rather than product. I wrote this before I read David's paper. We should talk about, in my view, the process of developing websites rather than the accessibility of the product. We need to examine why older people are currently using the web and, more importantly, why they don't. In a research organisation we should encourage the involvement of older people, particularly technophobic older people in our research and development. The last thing we need to do is look at how we should effectively communicate results of our deliberations to the web community generally. How do we present accessibility challenges that appeal to designers rather than extra burden? Designers are working on constraints. You tell them the constraints, I don't want to be busy. I can't cope with that, darling. It would ruin my exciting website. How do we present the challenge that if you design for older people, you design for everybody, if you design for younger people, you reduce other people's ability to use a website, including young executives like yourselves who are tentatively disabled by the ingestation of noxious substances which are either now or will may become legal in the future? My PowerPoint that drunks can use. Those of you who think that I'm talking rubbish will remember this morning and this afternoon where it seemed to me at least half the presenters couldn't cope with PowerPoint and they seem to be sober as far as I could tell them. I apologise. I apologise to the people who are desperately trying to cope with PowerPoint. How do we promote what we're doing to the main community? That's what's really important. Not what we're doing ourselves is how we promote it to the main community. Have you read with the greatest respect to everybody the title of the papers in these sessions? On the basis that most of them would you want to come to this conference if you knew nothing about accessibility? So you need to be a bit more exciting in your titles and I apologise to all the people because it's the grumpy old man syndrome. The other thing we should think about is why doesn't W4A, BCD, W4A produce a formal report to the main companies saying what they think are the issues which the main conference ought to be thinking about. If you don't do that, why the hell are you here? I ask myself. Then we need, in the longer term, to think about how we can contribute to the education of software engineers and web developers. We make our recommendations seem a challenge to designers rather than a bloody chore when they use a technical adjective. We should be concentrating on, in my view, the emoji empathy between the designers and the disenfranchised users unless I'm giving them detailed instructions on the designer websites which are accessible to the users. How do we do this? The guy who wrote the autobiography of Malcolm X once said, the best way to begin a speech is let me tell you a story. Everybody enjoys a good story most people don't enjoy lectures and I can see on your faces that this is a good audience to make that project. So don't preach, do not preach but develop stories which will translate the messages you want to translate. Tell people how to make an accessible website tell them what happens if the website is not accessible. There are lovely stories about what happens when people cannot access a website. Practising what I preach as it works we've been working with a professional theatre company in Dundee and a filmmaker to produce live theatre and films which illustrate the problems older people have with interfaces. These are not documentaries they are amusing and I mean narrative rather than documentary form and they've been shown to be very successful in challenging the views of students and professionals and you can see examples on my website including a film which is called Relatively PC which is about a family of three older people trying in their different ways to cope with the web and failing miserably. One of the exciting examples of using theatre is live interaction where the characters in the audience can interact with the audience remaining in role and answering the questions that they found. Unfortunately I was going to produce this tonight but unfortunately W4A could not afford to bring some actors along with me and that's why you're just getting this pathetic attempt at a presentation. If they had more money you would have had a really exciting innovative experience. But if you want to see it we put on a presentation of Kai in 2018 Florence and you can see that there's a film of that and the AAATE conference on Assistive Technology was also a video. So you can see videos of what we do and showing that live interactive theatre can be an exciting and effective way of communicating important messages about the design of Accessible Websites. But as you know in the UK at least Filment Theatre always has a commercial break and this is my commercial break and what I would suggest you do is if you wanted a longer version of the ramblings that you had tonight please buy my book. And again keep an old man out of penury and now is the time to another tweet folks tweet by this guy's book. One last time everybody in this room is growing older unless you want an early death giving the rate of change of both people and technology in time challenges of poorly designed websites will available will be all your challenges in these not some cases the far distant but in other cases the not too far distant future. So for absolutely selfish reasons why don't you think about how the hell to design website that older people like Bebo and I can use. Arrow slings and arrows about ranges forward. I think if you get some benefits from your book how much is your book? How much? It's quite an expensive book. It's quality, it's on Amazon yes. And you can thank you for that. You can all you can get an e version I think that's not what I call e version and those of you who are this is an advert for dancing. Those of you who are in institutions I understand can purchase a site license so all your students can read the magnificent text within my book. What's the title of your book? Thank you very much, well done. Thank you, thank you. Design and the digital divide something like insights from 40 years experience of designing systems for older and disabled people. So that tells you something about my age as well. A complicated title as well. Sorry? A complicated title as well. Not the first bit. Design and the digital divide. D, D, D. Does anyone want to follow the rant? No. I told you there'd be speech for the sound. She didn't say wow.