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August 29, 2007
Study to support new Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)
As some of you may know, there are a set of guidelines to help web developers produce web sites that are accessible to people with disabilities, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These are currently being revised and my university (the University of York in England) is helping to conduct a study of the draft of the new version. We are need to check the many recommendations of the new guidelines (there are some hundreds of them), so we need many people with different disabilities to try out little bits of code with different combinations of web browsers, screen readers, assistive technologies etc. Participants don’t have to know anything about web accessibility, or be particularly technical to participate, just answer simple questions about very simple web pages. And we will reimburse people for their time! The material is divided up into blocks of 20 simple (I hope!) web pages and questions, and for each block completed you get an Amazon gift voucher for US $15.00 (or local equivalent). And people are welcome to do as many blocks as you like.
We are particularly looking for people who are visually disabled (who might use screen readers, screen magnification programs, or enlarge the material on a webpage using the options in their browser or in the operating system), people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, people with dyslexic, and people with physical disabilities, but all disabilities are needed.
You do need to register, but that is simply to find out what combination of operating system, browser, screen reader, other devices etc you use, so you can be presented with appropriate questions and we can reimburse you with the appropriate number of gift vouchers. All information you provide is absolutely confidential and anonymous.
You can register by going to: http://bentoweb.org/amfortas/register.html
You then do the questions by going to: http://bentoweb.org/amfortas/sign-in.html
This is a small and easy way to have a say in improving the accessibility of the web in the future!
If you have any questions or comments, please contact:
Joe E. Wheaton, Ph.D.
A334 PAES Bldg.
305 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-8313 (voice)
614-292-4255 (FAX)
http://education.osu.edu/jwheaton/
Posted by Nancy at August 29, 2007 11:52 AM