[Nfb-web] Fw: [nfbcs] FW: [wisconsin] Study of possible interest

[Don Bomer (Tex)]

Greetings,

I am forwarding this from NFB-CS F Y I.

The original message was truncated but it looks like the meat is there.

Regards,

Don Bomer
Moderator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hyde, David W. (ESC)" <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: [nfbcs] FW: [wisconsin] Study of possible interest


> If any of you are interested, 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

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