[Nyabs] Fwd: AT&T Questions about finding information on maps

[Chancey Fleet]

Chancey Fleet
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> From: "Curtis Chong" <curtischong at earthlink.net>
> Date: July 15, 2013, 9:50:43 PM EDT
> To: "Curtis Chong" <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
> Subject: AT&T Questions about finding information on maps
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> Greetings:
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> I am attaching for your consideration a questionnaire from the AT&T Corporate Accessibility Technology Office (CATO) which attempts to gather information from blind end users about how they would like to read wireless coverage maps.  This questionnaire is also pasted at the end of this message.
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> This survey is completely voluntary.  If you are interested in responding to this questionnaire, please fill out the attached document and send it via email to Guido Corona, who is the person soliciting comments.  Mr. Corona's email address is guido.corona at att.com.
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> Thank you for any help you can provide in this matter.  It is always a good thing for us to be asked how we would like to handle certain kinds of information as a part of an accessibility initiative.
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> Yours sincerely,
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> Curtis Chong, President
> National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science
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> AT&T Questionnaire
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> We have just put a map-based tool online that lets people find out what levels of wireless coverage we offer in their area—4G LTE, 4G, 3G, and so on. People who can see will see this information as various shades of color on a map. The tool covers the globe. In other countries, there is an icon that, when clicked, reveals the rate plans available for calls between that country and the U.S.
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> We realize that we don’t have a good feel for the kind of reference points that would be meaningful to a person who is blind or visually impaired. So we would like to ask these four questions:
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> 1.            Have you ever tried to get information about wireless coverage? For instance, “I wonder if there is LTE coverage in my neighborhood?” If so, how did you try to find that information?
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> 2.            This question has three parts. If you were to try to find information about wireless coverage, how useful would each of these kinds of information be to you:
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> a.            The coverage available at a specific location, such as your home address, your office, the hotel where you plan to stay on a trip, or some other location that is relevant to you?
> b.            The kinds of coverage available in an arbitrary square around that location, with various zoom levels available? (For example: “Size: 1 mile by 1 mile. Centered on: [your home address]. 50 percent 4G LTE and lower. 30 percent 4G and lower. 20 percent 3G and lower.”)
> c.             The same kind of percentage-based information about the coverage available in a selected county, state, or country?
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> 3.            Is there anything else you would like us to know about the information you need about wireless coverage?
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> 4.            Is there anything else you would like us to know about how we can make information useful to you when that information is tied to geographic areas? 
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