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<DIV>Greetings to all!</DIV>
<DIV>You have an opportunity to make your voices heard.</DIV>
<DIV>Please read and share with others.</DIV>
<DIV>Joe </DIV>
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inline'><B>From:</B>
<A title=nlshahe@ilstu.edu href="mailto:nlshahe@ilstu.edu">Shaheen,
Natalie</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> #RequestingHelp with Study
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<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,
arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif">This data is an important piece of
changing the landscape of accessibility in K12 as well as making WCAG more
applicable to youth users. FYI, the research has been approved by ISU’s IRB
and
NFB’s Research Advisory Council.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for any
amplification
you have time to do within your networks.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">All the Best,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Natalie </FONT></P>
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arial"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'>Subject: Students Age 13-22 Share
Your
Story and Help Change Technology Practices in Education</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,
arial"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'>Are you (or do you know) a blind or
low-vision student whose school uses technology for teaching and learning?
Is
some of that technology hard or impossible for you to use due to
accessibility
barriers? Your story could help change educators’ and technologists’ ideas
about
accessible technology. </SPAN><A
href="http://hdl.handle.net/11603/17533"><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'>Previous research</SPAN></A><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'> has shown that blind people’s
stories
helped to change educators’ hearts and minds about accessible
technology.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial"><A
href="https://nlshaheen.com/"><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY:
"Arial",sans-serif'>Dr.
Natalie Shaheen</SPAN></A><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif'>,
Assistant Professor of special education at Illinois State University and
former
Director of Education for the National Federation of the Blind, is doing
research to gather blind and low-vision students’ (age 13-22) stories about
using accessible and inaccessible technology at school. Dr. Shaheen will
share
the results of the research with educators and technologists to, hopefully,
begin to change some of the technology practices in education and increase
disabled students’ access. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><A
href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9-aM_kHPlMkbrLUi0T_In19hDnVT6ndB0bbdaAltAPRX_2g/viewform?usp=sf_link">Express
interest in participating</A><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"> and l</FONT><A
href="https://nlshaheen.com/research/">earn more about the research</A><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif">.</FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><FONT face=Arial><B>Natalie L.
Shaheen, Ed.D.</B><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><FONT face=Arial>Assistant
Professor</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><FONT face=Arial>Department of
Special Education</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><FONT face=Arial>Illinois
State
University</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><A
href="http://nlshaheen.com"><FONT
face=Arial>nlshaheen.com</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><FONT face=Arial>Pronouns:
She,
her, hers</FONT></SPAN></P>
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