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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The below research participant solicitation is being provided for informational purposes only. The National Federation of the Blind has no involvement in this research, but we
believe that it may contribute to our research mission.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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">Previous research</a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> has shown that blind people’s stories helped to change educators’ hearts and minds about accessible technology.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://nlshaheen.com/">Dr. Natalie Shaheen</a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nlshaheen.com/research/">Learn more about the research</a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9-aM_kHPlMkbrLUi0T_In19hDnVT6ndB0bbdaAltAPRX_2g/viewform?usp=sf_link">express
your interest in participating</a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Lou Ann Blake, J.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Deputy Executive Director, Blindness Initiatives</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">(410) 659-9314, extension 2221 |
<a href="mailto:lblake@nfb.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">lblake@nfb.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation’s blind. Every day we work together to help blind people live the
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