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Re: web study on accessible wayfinding, please participate!

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Mar 22, 2010 4:30PM

Hi J :O)

Even more reason why blind should have been included from the get go.
My wife even has trouble trying to explain to me directions.


Perhaps this is just WCAG 1.0 , or Wayfinding Content Accessibility
Guidelines . :O)

cheers

Geof

At 05:06 PM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
>Geof: The purpose of the study is to get examples of how (sighted)
>people provide directions. But I agree, it would have been more
>valuable if blind individuals could have provided input as well.
>
>--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>From: Geof Collis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] web study on accessible wayfinding, please participate!
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 1:59 PM
>
>Which begs the question why not? Dont blind people need wayfinding?
>
>At 04:51 PM 3/22/2010, you wrote:
> >I participated this morning. It definitely requires being able to
> >look at several images, so it would not be screen-reader friendly.
> >There are also various objects distinguished only by color, so some
> >people with color blindness might not be able to complete it either.
> >That said, it's an interesting exercise and pretty fast to go through.
> >
> >--Jane Vincent, Center for Accessible Technology
> >
> >--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Carin Headrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >From: Carin Headrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> >Subject: Re: [WebAIM] web study on accessible wayfinding, please
> participate!
> >To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> >Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 1:29 PM
> >
> >Hmmm. Will a blind person be able to participate? It talks about
> >maps and arrows.
> >
> >Carin
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:03 AM
> >Subject: [WebAIM] web study on accessible wayfinding, please participate!
> >
> >
> >Dear All,
> >
> >The DiaSpace project in Bremen is running a quick (15 minute) online
> >web study into how people give route instructions in dialogue. The
> >goal is that our findings will help us develop more responsive
> >wayfinding systems so that people who can't manually control their
> >wheelchairs can interact via dialogue instead. Another application
> >which we're working on is about helping elderly people find objects in
> >their home by describing where they are in an understandable way.
> >
> >Please participate, and just as important, please forward this email
> >on to your friends! We're really having a hard time getting enough
> >participants who are native English speakers, as DiaSpace is based in
> >Germany. The only conditions for participation are that participants
> >be native or very fluent speakers of English and 18 years old or
> >older. Here's the link to the experiment:
> >
> >http://kognition.informatik.uni-bremen.de/diaspace/CR/
> >
> >The experiment only takes 15 minutes, and if you're using Windows
> >Vista, you'll need to run it on Firefox, as it won't work on Internet
> >Explorer for Vista. (It works on Internet Explorer for other operating
> >systems than Vista though.)
> >
> >Thanks very much for your help, and please feel free to send any
> >questions about this experiment or research to;
> >Dr Kavita Thomas
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >the DiaSpace project:
> >www.diaspace.org
> >University of Bremen
> >
> >