- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
- To: a.elliott@hud.ac.uk (Andrea Elliott)
- Cc: w3c-wai-rc@w3.org
to follow up on what Andrea Elliott said: > My name is Andrea and I am doing a Masters Degree in Disability > Studies at Leeds University (UK). Wonderful! > I would like to produce a questionnaire and place it on the net > and ask disabled people to complete it. The questionnaire will > ask them to look at several major websites in the UK (probably > utility related) and ask them to report back on the > accessibility of these websites. This is scary. How much have you talked to blind Web users? I fear that asking volunteer evaluators to undergo the hardship of wrestling with a web form will radically restrict your ability to tap their knowledge. Please reconsider. Seriously search for a sponsor for the phone time to talk to your respondents instead. Or at least prominently offer a plain-text email option for the web form. > Do any of the list members know of any similar research that > has been undertaken in the past? If so, please can you point me > in the right direction. The bibliography in the Page Author Guidelines is a good start. Maryvonne Lumley <maryv@minster.cs.york.ac.uk> did a similar study seeking understanding of colour effects in web sites by a rather ambitious web contstruction. You might check to see how she fared. You may have done the following already; here is my checklist for things you should have done before you set the scope of your investigation and decide the clinical details of how you will collect data. - spend some time in the lab with people using adaptive technology to browse the web - interview a few expert computer and web access evaluators such as Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu> Neal Ewers <ewers@trace.wisc.edu> Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com> Al Gilman
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