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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Good afternoon all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I\u2019m forwarding this for all the blind people who can assist with this study, or know sighted folks with blind children!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Keri<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Cameron Cassidy <cameron.cassidy@uci.edu> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 7, 2026 7:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> keribcu@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> How do you make picture books accessible to blind and sighted co-readers?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear friends and colleagues.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>My name is Cameron Cassidy. I\u2019m a legally blind PhD student at the University of California, Irvine, studying technologies that support shared picture book reading between adults and children when one is blind and the other is sighted. Over the next few weeks, as part of a </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/i-corps/about-i-corps" target="_blank">National Science Foundation I-Corps program</a><span style='color:black'>, we are aiming to speak with 100 TVIs and VI parents for just 15 minutes about how they find, evaluate, and adopt technologies (e.g., print-braille books, audiobooks) to meet their co-reading needs. We're now 60% of the way to our goal... and running out of time!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><u><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>If you read picture books with children, and at least one of you is visually impaired, we'd love to chat with you for 15 minutes</span></u><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>. You\u2019re welcome to book a time </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://calendar.app.google/Yrr6dT3B4GwSN7Hz8" target="_blank">through Google Calendar</a><span style='color:black'> to schedule (preferred, since 100 interviews is a lot of scheduling) or email me. If you personally know someone who might be interested, please share our message with them as well! </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Cameron Cassidy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ph.D. Student, Informatics</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>University of California, Irvine</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>