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>Peter
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>Hello, my name is Abhijit Ghosh. I currently work at the National Cancer
>Institute in the Communication Technologies Branch. As part of the 508
>initiative, we are looking to test our website with low vision to no vision
>users using JAWS, Window-Eyes, and in the future Screen magnifying software.
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>The  Communication Technologies Branch at the National Cancer Institute is
>helping lead an effort  to evaluate different federal web sites and make
>them usable and useful to users with disabilities of various kinds: vision,
>hearing, motor.  Recently we have started trying to assemble a panel of
>volunteers with low vision or no vision who would agree to be web site
>testers and join a database of volunteers we could call once or repeatedly
>to help us evaluate federal websites.
>Users will need to be in the Northern Virginia, D.C, Maryland area.
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>We will pay every volunteer for 2 hours of testing time at our facility.  We
>would pay $100 to each user in cash. In addition, we would cover for
>transportation cost.
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>They would make a huge contribution to aiding multiple agencies who provide
>web information to users with disabilties.  For the low vision part of the
>project, we would like to have both expert and novice users of screen
>readers (Jaws and WindowEyes) as well as users who require magnification
>devices/techniques.
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>Our group is responsible for the web site <http:/www.usability.gov> which is
>a rich source of information presenting and advocating evidence-based
>principles regarding web design and usability.  We also do research on
>user-centered design in our a state-of-the-art usability testing and
>training facility near the White Flint Metro stop in Rockville, Maryland.
>
>Please ask any folks you think would want to volunteer to contact:
>Abhijit Ghosh
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>phone 301 594-9080
>fax 301 435-6069
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>We certainly would appreciate as wide a distribution of this message as
>possible.
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