[Nfbnet-members-list] Blind adults with programming experience needed for research study on programming workspace accessibility

[Blake, Lou Ann]

The below research participant solicitation is being provided for informational purposes only. The National Federation of the Blind has no involvement in this research, but we believe that it may contribute to our research mission.

Invitation to Participate in Research on Programming Workspace Accessibility for Blind Individuals
A research team composed of blind and sighted scholars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is conducting exploratory research on blind individuals' interactions with accessible programming workspaces and their approach towards comprehending and navigating code. In this context, an individual's level of visual impairment is based on The U.S. legal definition of blindness: visual acuity of not greater than 20/200 in the better eye with correction or a field not subtending an angle greater than 20 degrees.
The expected value of this study is that we will get a better sense of the following topics based on blind programmers; experiences, which will in turn scientifically highlight the existing accessibility of programming workspaces and the opportunities to improve them to support blind programmers:
*         The common accessibility issues of blind programmers
*         The patterns of interaction between blind programmers and the accessibility tools used to code
*         The level of navigability, glanceability, alertability, and discoverability the popular accessible programming workspaces have

          Participants' personal information and data such as name, email, age, etc. collected from the interview will be systematically removed from the final results used to conduct analysis in order to make sure researchers will not disclose any of your personal information without your permission as well as skew the analysis.
The research team would like to invite blind individuals to participate in an online interview consisting of two sections: a questionnaire regarding past coding experience and an interactive coding session. This will allow researchers to further investigate how blind programmers code and interact with technologies and tools.
Participants will receive a $20 Amazon gift card upon completing the one-hour interview and coding activity. Eligible participants for the online interview are those:
*         self-identifying themselves as an individual who is blind;
*         age 18 or older;
*         having any level of programming experience;
*         having familiarity with Python, Java, C++ or C programming languages
*         having experience with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, ORCA, etc.

If you are interested in participating, or have a question, please contact our research team at rshah257 at illinois.edu<mailto:rshah257 at illinois.edu>. Please pass on this information to other suitable candidates who you think may be interested.
Sincerely,
JooYoung Seo (PI), Riya Shah, Khushi Jain, and Si Chen


Lou Ann Blake, J.D.
Director of Research Programs, Blindness Initiatives
200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
410-659-9314, extension 2221 | lblake at nfb.org<mailto:lblake at nfb.org>


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