[Md-sligo] FW: looking for screen readers for a study

[Brown, Debbie]

This sounds pretty involved, but some of you may be interested.

Debbie


From: Timony, James (DCPL) [mailto:James.Timony at dc.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 4:45 PM
To: Timony, James (DCPL)
Subject: Fw: looking for screen readers for a study


From: Carrie Russell

We are helping a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who is conducting usability studies with people with print disabilities. She is looking for a few more volunteers who will test screen readers for digital libraries.  If you know anyone that would be interested, please have them contact Melissa (below). Eligible volunteers get a $100 gift card.

Carrie Russell

Director, OITP Program on Public Access to Information

ALA Washington Office



Dear Carrie,

Thank you for helping recruiting subject for our diary study. We are close to finalizing the first phase of our study: diary study, but are in need of a few more participants (we likely need approximately 5-7 participants). I was wondering if you might be willing to reach out to any screen reader users who mainly rely on auditory functions of SRs to inform them of our two week diary study. The study requires that participants be willing to write in diary sheets (Microsoft Word) as they search in two digital libraries, as well as complete online questionnaires. If you would please forward this on to any interested participants, we would sincerely appreciate this. They can contact Melissa directly at castil44 at uwm.edu<mailto:castil44 at uwm.edu> <mailto:castil44 at uwm.edu> if they are interested and she will send further details and prescreening form.


Digital Library Study - 2 week diary phase
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its partners (including American Council of the Blind, Association for the BVI, Blind Service Association, ALA-Office for Information Technology Policy, Learning Ally, National Federation of the Blind-WI Chapter, and Vision Forward, Milwaukee Public Libraries, Milwaukee Public Museum, and Milwaukee Art Museum) are collaborating to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility, usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The project will benefit the approximately 20.6 million Americans with significant vision loss who cannot use digital libraries effectively because of the libraries' sight-centered design. The goal: to make digital libraries more universally accessible.

The researchers are looking to identify a few more screen reader users who are available to participate in the "diary" phase of the study for February 2018.  Those interested in participating will complete a prescreening form to determine their eligibility for the study. The diary group will complete a pre-questionnaire via Qualtrics, an orientation task and 2 search tasks for two Digital Libraries (DL). Participants will have two (2) weeks to complete the tasks and record as many problems encountered in each DL in diary format (Word documents). Following the use of each DL, the diary participants will complete a post-questionnaire via Qualtrics. Follow-up interviews will be incorporated to provide clarification on diary or post-questionnaire responses. The whole process takes approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes, but writing times may vary. Please note: as a diary study, this is a fairly writing-intensive study.

Each participant will be offered $100 electronic Amazon gift card for their participation in the study. Please contact Melissa directly at castil44 at uwm.edu<mailto:castil44 at uwm.edu> <mailto:castil44 at uwm.edu>, if you are interested. If you know anyone who might be interested in participating, please forward this email on to them.

Thank you!

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