[Blindtlk] Fwd: Request to Post – Help with a National Science Fou ndation study on blind persons' document formatting

[David Andrews]

>
>Dear David Andrews and Robert Leslie Newman,
>
>
>We are researchers from the University of 
>California, Santa Cruz. We are investigating 
>ways in which tools may assist blind people with 
>tasks related to document formatting. As a first 
>step, we are trying to gather information about 
>blind people’s document formatting practices 
>and challenges. We’ve already conducted 
>interviews and surveys with blind persons, and 
>now we need to collect a large number of 
>documents created and formatted by blind persons 
>without help from sighted persons.
>
>One of our current participants mentioned that 
>we could contact you with regards to announcing 
>our research project via the NFB membership 
>lists and/or the NFB Writers' Division. If you 
>could help us by sharing the following, we would really appreciate it.
>
>---
>
>Greetings,
>
>
>We are researchers from the University of 
>California, Santa Cruz. We are investigating 
>ways in which tools may assist blind people with 
>tasks related to document formatting. As a first 
>step, we need to gather information about 
>document formatting practices, errors and 
>barriers of blind persons. To do this, we need 
>to collect a large number and variety of 
>documents that were created and formatted by 
>blind persons (with at most some light 
>perception) without help from sighted persons.
>
>Please help us by providing documents (at least 
>3 pages long) that you have created with any 
>word processor (Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, 
>etc.) and formatted without help from a sighted 
>person. We will run a draw for two $50 Amazon 
>gift certificate as a token of appreciation for 
>those who provide at least five documents that follow the previous criteria.
>
>Note: As this is a National Science Foundation 
>study, we follow a strict rule of maintaining 
>your and your documents’ confidentiality and 
>destroying documents after the study is finished.
>
>If you are interested in helping, please email 
>your documents or any questions regarding the 
>study to 
><mailto:lommoral at ucsc.edu>lommoral at ucsc.edu. 
>Also, if you know someone who fits the criteria 
>and might be interested in helping us, please 
>forward this post. We really appreciate your help.
>
>Thank you for you time.
>
>
>Best regards,Â
>--
>Lourdes M. Morales Villaverde
>Computer Science Ph.D. Student
>Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs (ISIS) Lab
>Baskin School of Engineering
>University of California, Santa Cruz
>
><mailto:lommoral at ucsc.edu>lommoral at ucsc.edu
><mailto:soelommoral at soe.ucsc.edu>soelommoral at soe.ucsc.edu
><http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~soelommoral/>http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~soelommoral/


>From: Lourdes Morales <lommoral at ucsc.edu>


         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org