[nabs-l] FW: [AERNet] FW: BT [leadership] Request for Assistance with a National Science Foundation Study on Blind People's' Document Formatting Skills

Wed Nov 19 16:04:31 UTC 2014

I have been following your discussion about formatting papers with interest and this morning I received a request for people who are blind to volunteer to be in a research study on this very topic, so I am forwarding this along to you.  I do not know anything about it other than what was stated in the email below, so if you are interested, please contact the researcher Lourdes Morales- Villaverde at lommoral at ucsc.edu<mailto:lommoral at ucsc.edu> .

BJ

B. J. LeJeune, CRC, CVRT
National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
Mississippi State Univeristy
P. O. Box 6189
Mississippi State, MS  39762
662-325-2694
www.blind.msstate.edu<http://www.blind.msstate.edu>

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Subject: BT [leadership] Request for Assistance with a National ScienceFoundation Study on Blind People's' Document Formatting Skills

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 drawing for two $50 Amazon gift certificates 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:
lommoral at ucsc.edu<mailto: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 your time.

Best regards,
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
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