FYI:
Richard Rueda
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred R. McFarlane, Ph.D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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: [log in to unmask]
website: http://www.interwork.sdsu.edu
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