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

Karen,

My goodness, that is terrible. Thanks for informing me.

I am forwarding this to someone from Knowbility who can help you.

Katie Haritos-Shea
703-371-5545
On Feb 23, 2016 10:38 AM, "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:

> Katie,
> will a person get a confirmation  once they register?
> while I have a qualifying disability, I met with some uniqueness after I
> joined.
> For example I did not reach a field asking for your code so might have
> missed a step.
>
> I just tried phoning the 512 number provided on the site to check, only to
> reach a person who first blamed my screen reader, i. e. only population who
> might have a qualifying disability, then after gelling me he did not care
> about my efforts to learn if I am in the program hung up on an
> international caller.
> I would hope those administrating such a program, understand w3c rules
> themselves, or at least have manners.
> Can you guide me here?
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Katie Haritos-Shea 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
>>
>>