SignLinking Used With Print
Sometimes an author may want to create a bilingual Web page with both sign language and print-based content. For these situations, the signlinking technique includes two optional text features. The first is an optional text label that can be added below the thumbnail image. The label is a print-based hyperlink to the same URI as the sign-based hyperlink. The second text feature is an optional text content area. How this area is used is left up to the author, but some possibilities include: keywords for search engines, a short description, a full alternate text version, or form controls, if user input is required. The text can include print-based hyperlinks, but only to documents that are already hyperlinked by a signlink.Potential of SignLinking
Now that a technique is available to produce sign language-based Web pages and an authoring tool is available to greatly simplify the task, the only limit is the author’s own creativity. Individuals, organizations and businesses can create pages that communicate, do business, perform research, tell stories, provide services, preserve history, make friends……and with each hyperlink made from one signed Web page to another, the Signed Web will grow. <P> <I>The development of Signlinking was awarded the American Library Association Grolier Foundation Award for making the greatest contribution to children's literacy in 2004.</I>
