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From: Shirley Hicks
Date: Dec 8, 2009 11:24AM

Alison,

If you haven't already, you may want to talk to the Graphic Design
Canada membership
http://www.gdc.net/designers/listserv.php

as well as the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario
http://www.rgdontario.com/

Stateside, contact AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts)
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/about

All three groups have members doing this kind of work.

Shirley Hicks
<EMAIL REMOVED>
<EMAIL REMOVED>
www.velochicdesign.ca

On 8-Dec-09, at 12:09 PM, Alison Benjamin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Alison Benjamin, and I am a Master’s of Information
> candidate at
> the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. I have
> received
> permission to post to this mailing list from its administrator,
> Jared Smith.
>
>
> I am seeking participants for a study I am conducting as a part of
> my thesis
> work. My study is entitled: The force of standards and guidelines
> in Web
> accessibility work.
>
> As a Web developer or designer, you may be familiar with the W3C’s Web
> Accessibility Initiative (WAI). If you have ever used WAI standards
> and
> guidelines (e.g. WCAG, ATAG, UAAG, WAI-ARIA, HTML, CSS), you may be
> interested in participating in my study, which explores if and how Web
> developers and designers incorporate aspects of the WAI in their
> day-to-day
> work.
>
> Participating in this study involves taking part in one
> approximately 1 hour
> long semi-structured interview with myself, either in-person at the
> University of Toronto, over the phone, or at a location of your
> choosing.
>
> To qualify, you must have some experience designing or developing
> Web sites
> and/or “Web 2.0” applications (e.g. have been involved in at least one
> project of this nature). Over the course of the interview, you
> will be
> asked to share your views on how and when (if at all) you incorporate
> accessibility guidelines, standards, and policies in your design and
> development work. You may also be asked to share accessibility
> documentation
> you use in your work, such as WAI Webpages, best practice or
> accessibility
> statement documents, or personal protocols you follow.
>
> Approximately 10-15 participants will be interviewed in total. The
> results
> of my study will provide perspectives on how guidelines and
> standards are
> used in a variety of approaches to Web accessibility. Interviews are
> currently scheduled to take place between the months of December
> 2009 and
> February 2010 and will be scheduled at a time and location of your
> convenience. Interviews can occur over the phone if needed.
>
> All information gathered in this study will remain completely
> confidential.
> Any confidential or identifying information about participants will be
> anonymized and only myself and my supervisor will have access to the
> original data collected. This study has been reviewed and received
> ethics
> clearance from the Office of Research Ethics at the University of
> Toronto.
>
> If you are interested in participating in this study, or would like to
> discuss my study or this letter, please contact me at:
> <EMAIL REMOVED> . Alternatively, you may contact my
> supervisor
> for this study, Dr. Stephen Hockema, Assistant Professor in the
> Faculty of
> Information: <EMAIL REMOVED> ; phone: 416-978-7110.
>
> Thank you!
> Alison Benjamin
> Masters of Information candidate
> Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
>