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Abstract
The World Wide Web is replete with both representational and nonrepresentational images. When educators assign Web-based activities to their students, they are not only enlarging educational resources, but also exposing or expanding student involvement with a new medium. The Web offers a unique, often unedited, and rapidly changing tool that can be used to teach students about common perceptions of the aging individual and the special needs and considerations of older Web users. Persons who ''look old'' or exhibit some degree of frailty are sometimes, but not always, portrayed sympathetically. Also, because the Web is primarily a visual medium, Web sites that are designed for, or anticipate attracting, older users should take special care to make their site clear, clean, and easy to read. The page's content must consider not only the use of representational images that will effectively attract and retain site visitors, but also frequently overlooked elder-friendly aspects of design such as typefaces, type size, and colors.
