[Electronics-talk] AT&T Questions about finding information on maps

[David Andrews]

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>Greetings:
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>I am attaching for your consideration a questionnaire from the AT&T
>Corporate Accessibility Technology Office (CATO) which attempts to gather
>information from blind end users about how they would like to read wireless
>coverage maps.  This questionnaire is also pasted at the end of this
>message.
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>This survey is completely voluntary.  If you are interested in responding to
>this questionnaire, please fill out the attached document and send it via
>email to Guido Corona, who is the person soliciting comments.  Mr. Corona's
>email address is guido.corona at att.com.
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>Thank you for any help you can provide in this matter.  It is always a good
>thing for us to be asked how we would like to handle certain kinds of
>information as a part of an accessibility initiative.
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>Yours sincerely,
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>Curtis Chong, President
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>National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science
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>AT&T Questionnaire
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>We have just put a map-based tool online that lets people find out what
>levels of wireless coverage we offer in their area-4G LTE, 4G, 3G, and so
>on. People who can see will see this information as various shades of color
>on a map. The tool covers the globe. In other countries, there is an icon
>that, when clicked, reveals the rate plans available for calls between that
>country and the U.S.
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>We realize that we don't have a good feel for the kind of reference points
>that would be meaningful to a person who is blind or visually impaired. So
>we would like to ask these four questions:
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>1.            Have you ever tried to get information about wireless
>coverage? For instance, "I wonder if there is LTE coverage in my
>neighborhood?" If so, how did you try to find that information?
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>2.            This question has three parts. If you were to try to find
>information about wireless coverage, how useful would each of these kinds of
>information be to you:
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>a.            The coverage available at a specific location, such as your
>home address, your office, the hotel where you plan to stay on a trip, or
>some other location that is relevant to you?
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>b.            The kinds of coverage available in an arbitrary square around
>that location, with various zoom levels available? (For example: "Size: 1
>mile by 1 mile. Centered on: [your home address]. 50 percent 4G LTE and
>lower. 30 percent 4G and lower. 20 percent 3G and lower.")
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>c.             The same kind of percentage-based information about the
>coverage available in a selected county, state, or country?
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>3.            Is there anything else you would like us to know about the
>information you need about wireless coverage?
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>4.            Is there anything else you would like us to know about how we
>can make information useful to you when that information is tied to
>geographic areas?
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