FW: [leadership] FW: [Cder6] FW: Help requested with study of Web accessibility
Peter Altschul <[email protected]>
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FYI: Richard Rueda -----Original Message----- From: Fred R. McFarlane, Ph.D. [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Help requested with study of Web accessibility Dear Colleagues: This study is being completed by a colleague at Ohio State. If you or any of your colleagues are interested please contact Dr. Wheaton directly. -Fred >Hi All, > >I'd like to ask for your help in finding people with disabilities to >participate in a large study we are conducting to support the new Web >accessibility standard - the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, >version 2. Here is some information about it, if you or anyone you know >who might be interested, I would be very grateful if you could pass the >message on. > > >Study to support new Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) > >As some of you may know, there are a set of guidelines to help web >developers produce web sites that are accessible to people with >disabilities, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These are >currently being revised and my university (the University of York in >England) is helping to conduct a study of the draft of the new version. >We are need to check the many recommendations of the new guidelines >(there are some hundreds of them), so we need many people with different >disabilities to try out little bits of code with different combinations >of web browsers, screen readers, assistive technologies etc. >Participants don't have to know anything about web accessibility, or be >particularly technical to participate, just answer simple questions >about very simple web pages. And we will reimburse people for their >time! The material is divided up into blocks of 20 simple (I hope!) web >pages and questions, and for each block completed you get an Amazon gift >voucher for US $15.00 (or local equivalent). And people are welcome to >do as many blocks as you like. > >We are particularly looking for people who are visually disabled (who >might use screen readers, screen magnification programs, or enlarge the >material on a webpage using the options in their browser or in the >operating system), people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, people with >dyslexic, and people with physical disabilities, but all disabilities >are needed. > >You do need to register, but that is simply to find out what combination >of operating system, browser, screen reader, other devices etc you use, >so you can be presented with appropriate questions and we can reimburse >you with the appropriate number of gift vouchers. All information you >provide is absolutely confidential and anonymous. > >You can register by going to: >http://bentoweb.org/amfortas/register.html > >You then do the questions by going to: >http://bentoweb.org/amfortas/sign-in.html > >This is a small and easy way to have a say in improving the >accessibility of the web in the future! > >If you have any questions or comments, please ask them either on list or >off list. > > >>Many thanks for your help. > >Joe E. Wheaton, Ph.D. >A334 PAES Bldg. >305 W. 17th Ave. >Columbus, OH 43210 >614-292-8313 (voice) >614-292-4255 (FAX) >http://education.osu.edu/jwheaton/ >Dr. Fred R. McFarlane >Department of Administration, Rehabilitation & Postsecondary Education >San Diego State University >3590 Camino Del Rio North >San Diego, CA 92108 >office: (619)-594-4220 >fax: (619)-594-4208 >e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.interwork.sdsu.edu No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.0/961 - Release Date: 8/19/2007 7:27 AM VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. Archived on the World Wide Web at http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html Signoff: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected]