[bookshare-discuss] OT: Smithsonian's National Postal Museum seeks Blind and Visually Impaired volunteers to test accessibility.
- From: "A. J. Nolte" <a.j.nolte@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:39:29 -0400
Hey all:
Thought those of you in the DC area (if any) might be interested in this.
A. J.
Currently, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is working on a flash-based
project. The museum has a center called the Ford Education Center (FEC) which
has 5 touch screen computers and they offer cool content such as games, maps,
informative tidbits about stamps and the postal operations all in flash
program. The content in the touch screen computers are not accessible to
visitors outside of the museum and we're currently working on making the games
available on our website.
What we would love to do is to have you and some of your colleagues who are
blind or have low vision to test out our flash games to make sure they are
accessible. We want to see if the audio-descriptive tags work and if they are
FUN, and to see if you were able to clearly understand the games in order to
play them. The games we offer at the FEC are the following: matching games,
sorting the mail game, and stamp collecting games.
Would you be interested? Would you have friends and/or colleagues who would be
interested in participating?
Basically our plan is to work on one game at a time. The first is the Sorting
the Mail game (this is where you move mail into boxes categorized by city).
Then we'll have a core group of people who are blind/have low vision to come in
and test out the games and give us feedback. If the game is successful, we'll
move forward with the next game and the process starts again. I haven't set a
date as to when the testing would begin, but I'll know more information once I
talk to our contractor.
If you want more information about the Ford Education Center, we have a bit of
commentary in this link: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1n_FEC.html
Please let me know if you have any questions or if you need me to clarify
anything. Otherwise, please email me at JacquesT@xxxxxx to inform me of your
interest by COB April 16th (Friday).
Thank you so much!
Tabitha Jacques
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