[vip_students] Congrats Re Seeking Input Re ARIA Google and Gmail

  • From: "Tony Sweeney" <tonysweeney1@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:26:29 -0000

Hi Josh,

Welcome and thanks for posting to the list!

It is great that NCBI are encouraging people to get involved and not just
deciding for us!

Best of luck.

Success with all your endeavours there.

Best, Tony.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshue O Connor" <joshue.oconnor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: [vip_students] ARIA Google and Gmail


> Hi all,
>
> This is my first post here, and I wonder if any of you can help. What
> follows is a little technical but I am basically interested in finding
> out a little about how any of you find using Google Docs and Gmail.
>
> <technical content:health warning>
>
> I am wondering if any screen reader users here are using Google Docs or
> Gmail? In particular the "Chat" functionality of the Gmail user
> interface. It has recently been ARIA enabled and would be worth a look
> either way if you are interested. If anyone here did I am interested in
> finding out more about your experience. What it useful? Did this
> functionality improve the user experience of Gmail? Did you even notice?
> [1] [2] [3]
>
> I would also be interested in doing some user testing of this
> functionality in the CFIT labs with anyone who is interested and the
> test results could be offered back to Mozilla/Google in order to improve
> the ARIA implementation.
>
> Anyone who is interested in getting involved please let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Josh
>
> [1] http://www.marcozehe.de/tag/aria/
> [2]
>
http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/08/06/aria-in-gmail-2-enhancing-the-chat-experience/
> [3] http://accessify.com/news/category/wai-aria/
>
>
>


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