Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Way-finding Survey

RantWoman is just a fountain of good-cause contribute your experiences to the common weal exercises. The exercise du jour is related to RantWoman's passions about walking and walkability. The survey is hailed by several voices RantWoman knows to be reliable to be quite accessible, except for a couple tips here:

--A JAWS user (version unknown) reports having to switch forms mode on and off to deal with the combo boxes

--Another person writes: one may have to use one's screen reader keys to pop in and out of browse or forms mode to read the question. I found that after going out of Window Eyes browse mode to answer the question, I pressed tab, then came back into browse mode to read the next question, etc.


Smith-KettlewellWay findingSurvey This comes from the acb-l listserve. Please read below if you are interested. Donna *************************************************
Request for Participation -- Smith-Kettlewell WayfindingSurvey Greetings!

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (S-K), in collaboration with researchers at Accessible Design for the Blind and U.C. Santa Barbara, is conducting a survey of tools and techniques used by blind and visually-impaired people in their every-day lives. We want to know how you get around, how comfortable you feel in various situations, what other disabilities you have, and what tools and techniques you use in your daily travels. By participating in the S-K Wayfinding Survey, you will extend our knowledge of how real blind and visually-impaired people travel independently. You will also help to improve the independence of future travelers with visual disabilities by sharing your experience.

You can participate in the S-K Wayfinding survey on the web, by phone, or by TTY. The survey should take no more than 20 minutes to complete, and your responses will be completely confidential. We eagerly look forward to your participation and thank you in advance for your help.

To take the survey on the web or ask questions about it:> http://holman.ski.org/wayfindingsurvey>> Take the survey by phone: (415) 345-2013
-- We will call you back.
Take the survey by TTY:> (415) 345-2290 -- We will call you back.>> Please share this announcement with any individuals or lists you think might be interested. If you do forward it, please take the time to remove any extra e-mail headers to improve readability.>> Again, we thank you for your valuable assistance with this important> research project.>> ----------------------------------------
Joshua A. Miele, Ph.D.
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
2318 Fillmore St
San Francisco, CA 94115 _______________________________________________>

2 comments:

  1. Thanks a ton, RantWoman, for helping us get the word out! We did our best to make the survey reasonably friendly to screen readers. For anyone who finds it too frustrating, please give us a call at the number listed above and you can take the survey by phone. Thanks also to anyone who fills out the survey -- it really helps!

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  2. I did the survey and had sort of the same problems about forms mode as mentioned above. I have JAWS 10 and also Zoomtext. I found the survey quite easy to navigate, but I am also a pretty hearty user.

    For more detail narrative, search on Thwack (my white cane) or click on the Walkability and Pedestrian Issues tag or one of the other tags on the survey post.

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