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Subject line: Do you use developer tools?<br>
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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. <br>
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<a href="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">
Link to survey</a><br>
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Thank you for your time,<br>
Dante Gagne <br>
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<b>From:</b> Blake, Lou Ann
[<a href="mailto:LBlake@nfb.org">mailto:LBlake@nfb.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dante Gagne
<<a href="mailto:danteg@microsoft.com">danteg@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Gianugo Rabellino
<<a href="mailto:Gianugo.Rabellino@microsoft.com">
Gianugo.Rabellino@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility<br>
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Good Morning Dante,<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Lou Ann<br>
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Lou Ann Blake, J.D.<br>
(410) 659-9314 x 2221<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
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<b>From:</b> Dante Gagne
[<a href="mailto:danteg@microsoft.com">mailto:danteg@microsoft.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 25, 2017 2:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Blake, Lou Ann<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Gianugo Rabellino<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Research Request: Visual Studio AT compatibility<br>
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Luanne,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Thank you for your time,<br>
Dante<br><br>
<b>From:</b> Dante Gagne
[<a href="mailto:danteg@microsoft.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:danteg@microsoft.com</a>] <br><br>
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