Re: Income opportunity for people with disabilities to report on web accessibility

Hi Harry, it is a very broad qualification that includes blindness, low
vision, hearing loss or deafness, manual motor skills esp those that rely
on speech input, as well as an array of cognitive disabilities.

John Sweet built the database and is copied here.

Best,
Sharron Rush
On Feb 23, 2016 3:31 AM, "Harry Loots" <harry.loots@ieee.org> wrote:

> Hi Katie
> Trust you're well.
>
> I'd love to share this with friends - but don't want them to go through
> registration then find out they do not have a 'qualifying disability'?
> So any idea what a 'qualifying disability' is?
>
> Regards
> Harry
>
>
> On 23 February 2016 at 05:11, Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear WAI-IG,
>>
>> AccessWorks is recruiting people with disability for *paid* usability
>> studies.  The project is a partnership of Australian Loop11 and US
>> nonprofit Knowbility.  People with disabilities receive occasional income
>> ($50 US per test) to report on their  experience doing standard web-based
>> tasks like shopping, registering for government services, booking travel
>> and such.
>>
>> International demand is building and AccessWorks needs more people from
>> all over the world. If you have a qualifying disability and are interested
>> in participating:
>>
>> Please sign up on the AccessWorks [1] web site. Use the promo code 'waiig'
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> [1[ http://www.access-works.knowbility.org/getstarted.php
>>
>> Katie Haritos-Shea
>> 703-371-5545
>>
>
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