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

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 15, 2013 2:10PM

Oswal

Most certainly, thanks to everyone who took and/or promoted the
survey, we received 350 responses.
Slides from the CSUN presentation are here (not a big fan of
Slideshare accessibility):
http://www.slideshare.net/hmhreinsson/presentations

We will have a more detailed Webinar on the survey and resulting
project through Equal Access to Software and Information
(http://easi.cc) at the beginning of May.
Most importantly, the survey, we feel, justifies the online resource
we are busy creating, and should be launched within a month's time (it
will take longer to complete the project, but some useful info will
already be there, including a write up of survey and analysis of the
responses).

I will announce the website to this list as soon as it is online, and
we always welcome ideas and discussions.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 4/15/13, Sushil Oswal < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello Birkir, back in Janury you gave us a user survey.
>
> Will you be sharing the results of that survey with us?
>
> Oswal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:31 AM
> Subject: [WebAIM] Survey, how do screen reader users navigate within
> websites
>
>
> 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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