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From: Tania
Date: Aug 17, 2011 11:21PM

hi gary,
could it be that not many blind knew about the project?
is the project still active? if it is , i would like to send the link you
provided to various blind groups for them to try out .
[notice the last blog entry on the project page was last year.]

thanks,
tania


From: "Gary Barber" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] feasibility


> Hi Allen
>
> It's been done, mainly for visually impaired users. IBM have this
> project out of the Japanese office IIRC called SAP - Social
> Accessibility Project.
>
> http://sa.watson.ibm.com/
>
> Interesting aspect is they found they had lots of people correcting the
> errors for them. But not many submissions of errors or issues from the
> community that the accessibility would benefit. So the idea was good,
> just the uptake of the service was poor from the people it would
> benefit. Now there could be lot of secondary reasons for this lack of
> uptake.
>
> Still a very interesting idea.
>
> Gary Barber
>
>
>