ACCESSIBILITY AND COMPUTING A Regular Publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing September 2006 Number 86 Contents: From the Editor 1 1 ASSETS 2006 Doctoral Consortium 2 2 Personalized and Adaptive Navigation based on Multimodal Annotation 4 3 Prototyping and Evaluation of Landcons: Auditory Objects that Support Wayfinding for Blind Travelers 8 4 A Visio-Haptic Wearable System for Assisting Individuals Who Are Blind 12 5 Developing An Assistive Haptic Framework For Improving Non-Visual Access To The Web 16 6 Multi-Layer Dialog Generation for Non-Visual Web Access 20 7 ViCRAM: Visual Complexity Rankings and Accessibility Metrics 24 8 Designing Cognitive Supports for Dementia 28 9 Understanding and Supporting the Use of Accommodating Technologies by Adult Learners with Reading Disabilities 32 10 An Evolutionary System for the Sc@ut Platform 36 11 Virtual Sign Animated Pedagogic Agents To Support Computer Education For Deaf Learners 40