[blindlaw] FW: Recruiting for D.C. Area Focus Group, Accessibility of High Stakes Testing

[Andrews, David B B (DEED)]

Hello. Please see the announcement/invitation 
below to participate in an upcoming focus group. 
Forwarding and reposting is encouraged.  Thank you.

Recruiting for D.C. Area Focus Group, Accessibility of High Stakes Testing

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®) 
is working with WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro 
National Center for Accessible Media (WGBH-NCAM) 
to conduct a focus group on the accessibility of 
the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT®) by 
people who are blind, have low vision or have a 
mobility impairment, and who use a keyboard vs. a 
mouse for online navigation. Your participation 
is requested.  Preference is given to individuals 
who have had experience taking a high stakes graduate admission test.

Focus Group participants will be asked questions 
about test taking experiences including test 
functionality and navigation, and to provide 
preferences for potential delivery of accessible graphics and other imagery.

An honorarium will be offered, and transportation 
to the site of the focus group (Reston, VA) arranged and costs reimbursed.

Please send an email to 
<access at wgbh.htm>access at wgbh.org with 
"participate" in the subject line. The focus 
group will be held in the morning of one of these 
three dates. Please include your preferences of 
dates by indicating first choice and second choice.

Thursday, September 16
Tuesday, September 21
Monday, October 4

Thank you.

-- 
Mary Watkins
Director of Communications
   and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
One Guest Street
Boston, MA  02135
617 300-3700
<mary_watkins at wgbh.htm>mary_watkins at wgbh.org
access.wgbh.org

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