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From: Jim Allan
Date: Apr 14, 2020 7:19AM

Danielle
I work in blindness. For k12 high stakes testing we gathered a small group
of vision professionals (one was a psychometrician who has extensive
experience with blind children). The visual parts of each question was
analyzed for the actual task for the question, then a non-visual adaptation
was proposed. Every test given had a number of validation test questions,
the no -visual ones were part of the rotation and we're validated with the
other validation questions on all students not just blind students.
It takes time and a group that understands non-visual instruction.

Jim

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 1:13 PM Danielle Chouhan < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hello, I work for a company that offers various types of content
> development work and manage a large freelancer database. As part of that
> database, we ask -- but do not require -- freelancers to take several
> different types of abstract reasoning tests so that we can help to better
> match up freelancers to projects. We are trying to come up with a way to
> make these types of tests accessible and ADA-compliant. It is NOT mandatory
> for freelancers to take these tests to be a part of the database, but those
> who have results in our database would benefit more than those freelancers
> who do not. These tests are often heavily visual and I assume that just
> offering alt-text will not truly suffice as I imagine there are better ways
> to approach abstract reasoning testing for visually impaired users. Does
> anyone have any recommendations for the best way to approach
> accessibility/ADA-compliance with abstract reasoning tests?
>
> Thank you for any guidance or direction anyone can offer!
> best,
> Danielle
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