Re: jaws with windows help and windows seven?[Scanned]
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:34:24 -0500
You should probably post this to the blindwebbers list --
blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hayhoe,Simon" <HayhoeS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: jaws with windows help and windows seven?[Scanned]
Dear All,
I am sorry to ask the members of this list, but following on from an earlier
piece of research I have conducted with members of this list, I am currently
conducting follow-on research on blindness / visual impairment and web
development - which emerged as a particularly interesting topic in my
original research. Therefore, I would be extremely grateful to anyone who,
after reading through the following description of the project, could answer
the questions at the end of this email.
Many thanks in advance, and I look forward to your interesting replies!
The Web Interfaces & Blindness Project (WIBP) intends to survey and
interview English speaking people of all ages who are registered blind and
design or program webpages, in order to discover:
1. strategies for designing and encoding webpages without vision
2. the problems encountered by blind web designers
3. how blind web designers imagine a webpage
4. how blind web designers encode computer interfaces that can be used
by both blind and sighted users
5. blind web designers' understanding of visual programming languages;
in particular what they understand by:
5.1. Hyperlinks, Java applets and Flash animation
5.2. The concept of a two-dimensional interface, such as a form
5.3. Designing pages that have to change to fit different sizes of
monitors or mobile telephones
6. whether blind web designers who are born blind or become blind very
early in their life are different from blind web designers who have become
blind later in their life
Aims and Objectives of WIBP
The aim of this research is to produce a number of case studies that
describe "non-visual" web design and encoding, in order to develop a better
understanding of access and development of websites.
The objective of this research is to inform a greater understanding of how
the mind, both visually and non-visually, understands creating websites and
similar two-dimensional interfaces / images used in the design of webpages.
This will ultimately inform better designed interfaces and more effective
web methodologies.
The Researcher
WIBP is a solo, un-funded research project by Dr. Simon Hayhoe, visiting
academic in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science,
London School of Economics & Political Science, UK. Alongside his research
experience, he has experience of teaching ICT, IT and Computing to children
as young as 3 all the way through to adults on IT degree level courses.
Simon has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Technical Communication, a
Postgraduate Certificate in Education in technology education, and a Master
of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy in the education of students who are
blind and visually impaired - his postgraduate degrees specialised in art
education. He also runs the website http://www.blindnessandarts.com
<http://www.blindnessandarts.com/> and can be contacted if you wish to ask
questions and to return your questionnaire, via the email address:
editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Extended Questionnaire
Could you please answer each question underneath, providing as
much detail as possible. Please do not send a separate document. If you wish
to save the final document as a PDF I would be very grateful. Alternatively,
if this is not possible could you please save it as an RTF document. All
information will be kept anonymously, and you will only be referred to using
a pseudonym in any subsequent case studies - your identities will also be
made suitably ambiguous so as to further preserve anonymity.
1. Could you please provide the following personal details:
i) Your Age:
Your answer here
ii) Are you registered blind in your home country:
Your answer here
iii) How long ago were you registered blind, and the official term for
your form of blindness:
Your answer here
iv) Before being registered blind, did you have a visual impairment, and
how long did you have this impairment:
Your answer here
v) Did you attend mainstream school, university / college, a school for
the blind or another type of school:
Your answer here
vi) Are you totally blind, or do you have some visual perception. If you
are not totally blind, please describe your visual impairment / blindness:
Your answer here
2. Could you please provide the following details about your general
computing experience - not including your web design experience.
i) What originally prompted you to use a computer:
Your answer here
ii) Could you please describe your non-website design computer usage:
Your answer here
iii) Could you please describe your first experiences of just using a
computer - not including designing web pages, as this will be covered in
question 3 -, how long ago it was and where it was (please include whether
it was at school or at home, the type of interface you used, your age,
whether it was a good or bad experience, the type of programs you used, the
type of hardware you used):
Your answer here
iv) Please describe how you first browsed the Internet / World Wide Web -
this does not include any web-design - how long ago it was and where it was:
Your answer here
v) Could you please describe the types of interface you have used in
the past for normal, non-programming usage, from the earliest to the latest.
Could you please describe your use of interfaces when using common programs,
such as word processors, spreadsheets and databases:
Your answer here
vi) If you have come across graphical user interfaces (GUIs), could you
please describe your use of them:
3. Could you please provide the following details about your web design
experience:
i) Could you please tell me why you design web pages (e.g. is it
because you have to for business reasons or did you decide to design a
website for a hobby or out of personal interest):
Your answer here
ii) Could you please tell me which languages you use and describe your
current / recent projects:
Your answer here
iii) Could you please describe your first experiences of web page
design - this is different to question 2 (ii) which asked about general
computing experience - how long ago it was and where it was (e.g. whether
it was at school or at home, the type of interface you used, your age,
whether it was a good or bad experience, the type of web design environment
you used):
Your answer here
iv) Please describe how you currently design a web page interface (e.g.
which elements does it have, how do you imagine a webpage in front of you,
how do you envisage hyperlinks, Flash images and Java applets):
Your answer here
v) If you have ever come across graphical interfaces since becoming
blind, could you please describe your use of them:
Your answer here
4. If possible, could you please provide screen shots of the interfaces you
have designed - one or two will be sufficient - and could you please provide
screen shots of some examples of extracts of your coding - again one or two
will suffice. NB: we will blur the identity of this web page in any
published documentation:
Thank you very much for participating in this project. I greatly appreciate
your time.
Many thanks in advance,
Simon Hayhoe
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Dr Simon Hayhoe FBCS
Head of ICT
Leicester Grammar School
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Great Glen
Leicestershire LE8 9FL
UK
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