The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its partners (including American Council of the Blind, Association for the BVI, Blind Service Association, ALA-Office for Information Technology Policy, Learning Ally, National Federation of the Blind-WI Chapter, and Vision Forward, Milwaukee Public Libraries, Milwaukee Public Museum, and Milwaukee Art Museum) are collaborating to develop digital library design guidelines on accessibility, usability, and utility for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The project will benefit the approximately 20.6 million Americans with significant vision loss who cannot use digital libraries effectively because of the libraries' sight-centered design. The goal: to make digital libraries more universally accessible. The researchers are looking to identify a few more screen reader users who are available to participate in the "diary" phase of the study for February 2018. Those interested in participating will complete a prescreening form to determine their eligibility for the study. The diary group will complete a pre-questionnaire via Qualtrics, an orientation task and 2 search tasks for two Digital Libraries (DL). Participants will have two (2) weeks to complete the tasks and record as many problems encountered in each DL in diary format (Word documents). Following the use of each DL, the diary participants will complete a post-questionnaire via Qualtrics. Follow-up interviews will be incorporated to provide clarification on diary or post-questionnaire responses. The whole process takes approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes, but writing times may vary. Please note: as a diary study, this is a fairly writing-intensive study. Each participant will be offered $100 electronic Amazon gift card for their participation in the study. Please contact Melissa directly at castil44@xxxxxxx <mailto:castil44@xxxxxxx> <mailto:castil44@xxxxxxx>, if you are interested. If you know anyone who might be interested in participating, please forward this email on to them. Thank you! _______________________________________________ Midimag-ex mailing list Midimag-ex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.midimag-xt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/midimag-ex _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
