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From: Gary Barber
Date: Aug 18, 2011 1:09AM

Hi Tania

Not my project. The project lead was discussing it recently in a
presentation in Perth.

The relevant community groups were informed IIRC. Mind you it maybe a
case of people finding other ways around the issue.

Would love some hard research on this type of issue as it seems like a
classic case of perceived need verse reality.

Gary Barber


On 18/08/11 1:23 PM, Tania wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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