[NFB-NM] Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility

[Tonia Trapp]

From: NFBNet-Members-List [mailto:nfbnet-members-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Blake, Lou Ann via NFBNet-Members-List
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 4:18 PM
To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility

 

 
Subject line: Do you use developer tools?
 
Hi, my name is Dante and I work on the Microsoft Visual Studio engineering team. We’re learning how developers use assistive technologies like screen readers or refreshable braille displays. If you use any assistive technologies with your developer tools, please take this very short survey and share your experiences with us! Your feedback will help us build a better, more accessible developer tools for you.  
 
Link to survey <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DRB8MD?vs_version=%5bvs_version_value%5d&vs_edition=%5bvs_edition_value%5d&vs_sqmUserId=%5bvs_sqmUserId_value%5d&vs_otuId=%5bvs_otuId_value%5d> 
 
Thank you for your time,
Dante Gagne 
 
 
From: Blake, Lou Ann [mailto:LBlake at nfb.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:05 AM
To: Dante Gagne <danteg at microsoft.com>
Cc: Gianugo Rabellino < Gianugo.Rabellino at microsoft.com <mailto:Gianugo.Rabellino at microsoft.com> >
Subject: RE: Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility
 
Good Morning Dante,
 
Please email to me the text of an announcement to solicit NFB members to take the Visual Studio survey. I will have the announcement posted to our members list. The announcement should emphasize that only list members who use visual Studio should take the survey. 
 
Members of the NFB Research Advisory Council also suggested that a statement that only users of Visual Studio are invited to take the survey should be added at the beginning of the survey. This will help to prevent people who have never used Visual Studio from completing the survey.
 
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
 
Best regards,
 
Lou Ann
 
Lou Ann Blake, J.D.
(410) 659-9314 x 2221
National Federation of the Blind
 
From: Dante Gagne [mailto:danteg at microsoft.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 2:06 PM
To: Blake, Lou Ann
Cc: Gianugo Rabellino
Subject: Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility
 
Luanne,
 
My name is Dante Gagne and I’m a program manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. Over the last 8 months we’ve been engaged in an all-up push to improve the compatibility of Visual Studio with Assistive Technologies (E.g. Screen Readers). We currently plan to release an update to Visual Studio in early August which should dramatically improve the experience of our customers who use Visual Studio with screen readers.
 
I reached out to the list owners of “Blindrug” and “fnbcs”, and David Andrews directed me to reach out to you. If you’ll allow it, I would like to send three e-mails to whatever email aliases you will allow. The first will ask folks who use Visual Studio to take a survey on surveymonkey giving us an idea of the quality of their experience with Visual Studio today. The second e-mail will be within a day or two of our next update of Visual Studio which will contain the bulk of compatibility fixes, and will encourage the folks to download the newest update and give it a try. Finally, near the end of August/beginning of September, I’ll send another survey asking folks if they feel the newest update is better and give folks an opportunity to give more feedback.
 
Our goal is to improve the overall quality of Visual Studio’s compatibility with ATs to ensure that folks who want to use Visual Studio will find it a better, more welcoming experience.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions or what I would need to do. I have CC’d my colleague in the Cloud & Enterprise Accessibility core team, Gianugo, who is responsible for accessibility for the entire C&E division here at Microsoft. 
 
Thank you for your time,
Dante

From: Dante Gagne [ mailto:danteg at microsoft.com <mailto:danteg at microsoft.com> ] 

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