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Re: Survey, how do screen reader users navigate within websites

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From: Martin Leon
Date: Jan 10, 2013 1:19PM

I would be very interested to see the results of your survey. Please keep us posted.
On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:

> Hello listers.
>
> Me and my colleague are carrying out research into how much users take
> advantage of structural markup on websites (headings, landmarks, table
> navigation).
> We want to get as much feedback as possible, from a diverse user group
> of screen reader users.
> This is part of a research project e are working on, which also
> includes field test with users.
> We are hoping this may lead to online tutorials, videos or other
> material that will help ensure screen reader users can take advantage
> of this type of markup.
> (I know we concentrate on screen reader users for this particular
> survey, but we are hoping to perhaps do similar things in future to
> make sure users can fully take advantage of WCAG compliant and
> accessible websites).
> You can access the survey at the following link:
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XGC33NV
>
> The survey consists of 9 questions, should take about 5 minutes to
> complete, and users may not know all the answers (in fact, we suspect
> they may not), and should not be embarrassed about it (for one thing
> the survey is totaly anonymous).
> Feel free to distribute (and also free not to).
> I'll share the results with you, both at CSUN and on this list.
> Hopefully we can turn this into another tool to help encourage
> accessible webpage design, UA interpretation and, ultimately,
> something to benefit some of our end users.
> Cheers
> -B
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