Re: experiment to make map info online accessible--please participate!
- From: "Dorene Cornwell" <dorenefc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:58:14 -0800
As someone who still has enough vision to have a pretty good spatial sense
about lots of things, I found this experiment tested really well about some
topics I find very difficult since vision decline in terms of describing and
interpreting graphical information. The fact that it was a good test is
different from automatic success, but I was impressed.
I really recommend participating especially if you have or aspire to have
any kind of job that involves working with lots of data and graphical
representations of the data's meaning! I had a few other impressions but
those are not appropriate for this list until the data collection is done.
The AFB has lots of great material too, but this project is something
different.
DoreneC
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Tom Ladis <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please contact The American Federation for the Blind
> (AFB.ORG<http://afb.org/>).
> They have done lots of research on this and their website can be used as
> an example.
>
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas, Kavita E" <tkavita@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:33 AM
> Subject: experiment to make map info online accessible--please participate!
>
>
> Hello,
> I was hoping you might be able to help me by participating in an online
> experiment on accessibility. We're developing a prototype system which takes
> numerical data found on maps online (like census data) and communicates it
> as texts so that it's accessible to the blind and VI community.
> I'm running a final experiment now to find out which types of texts are
> most preferred by blind and VI users so that we can implement these in our
> system, and so I was hoping that you might be willing to participate. The
> experiment takes on average half an hour and it's online, so you can do it
> whenever is best for you, though it needs to be done all in one sitting
> without taking breaks or pauses in the middle. It is also a bit repetitive
> and requires your full concentration, but the results will hopefully enable
> us to communicate spatial information in maps in a more accessible way.
> Your participation will really make a difference and help us to produce
> texts which make the most sense to blind and VI users in
> general. Please forward this on to anyone else who you think might be
> willing to participate.
> The website to go to to take the experiment is:
> http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~tkavita/Experiments/RefFrame/
> Thanks very much,
> Dr Kavita Thomas
> the Atlas.txt project: www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/atlas
> Department of Computing Science
> University of Aberdeen
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