[nabs-l] experiment to make map info online accessible--pleaseparticipate!

[T. Joseph Carter]

Antonio, they said the information was accessible.  They made no claim that 
it made sense.  *grin*

Joseph

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:39:33PM -0500, Antonio Guimaraes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is one of the strangest tests I've taken, or tried to take. The 
> survey did not do it for me, and I quit right at the beginning.
>
> It seams using text to convey GPS points and directions is cumbersome, 
> and uneffective.
>
> Antonio Guimaraes
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas, Kavita E" 
> <tkavita at abdn.ac.uk>
> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:14 AM
> Subject: [nabs-l] experiment to make map info online  
> accessible--pleaseparticipate!
>
>
>> Hello,
>> We're developing a prototype system which takes numerical data found on 
>> maps online (like census data) and communicates it as texts so that 
>> it's accessible to the blind and VI community.
>> I'm running a final experiment now to find out which texts are most  
>> preferred by blind and VI users so that we can implement these in our  
>> system, and so I was hoping that you might participate if you're blind 
>> or severely visually-impaired. The experiment takes on average half an 
>> hour and it's online, so you can do it whenever is best for you, though 
>> it needs to be done all in one sitting without taking breaks or pauses 
>> in the middle. It's also quite repetitive, as you'll be listening to 10 
>> texts and answering questions about each of them, but your 
>> participation will really make a difference and help us to produce 
>> texts which make the most sense to blind and VI users in general. 
>> Please forward this on to anyone else who you think might be
>> willing to participate. The website to go to to take the experiment is:
>> http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~tkavita/Experiments/RefFrame/
>> Thanks very much,
>> Dr Kavita Thomas
>> the Atlas.txt project: www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/research/atlas
>> Department of Computing Science
>> University of Aberdeen
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