[oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)

This looks really interesting Darren, I'd apprecaite updates to your project
(is there a news feed?!).

Is it OK to send this email on to another couple of newsgroups I think will
get you more participants? Namely, SENIT, Assistech and EmpTech...

Cheers.

Simon  

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Subject: [oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)

Hello all,

We are currently undertaking accessibility research with the Human Centred
Web Lab (HCW) in the School of Computer Science at the University of
Manchester. We are currently looking into the use of Web 2.0 technologies
and their affects on Assistive technologies, both in general use and as a
method of improving Web page accessibility.  To gain more of an insight into
this, we have devised two small studies that we would like people to
participate in.

The first study is to gain an understanding of how current screen reader
(and browser) technologies cope with dynamic changes to pages.  We have
developed a set of test pages,  and what we would like people to do is
explore them, using your normal screen reader and browser, then tell us what
happens.  There is a more detailed introduction and instructions at
<http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ research/saswat/experiments/atreview.html>.

The second study is to see if inserting ARIA statements into Web pages can
aid in the navigation of the pages.  We are looking for people who use
Windows Eyes, Orca or Firevox in conjunction with Firefox 3 and would be
willing to take part in a small study in July.  Ideally we would like to
have 12 participants and are willing to offer a bursary of a £10 iTunes
voucher (approximately $20 USD) for anybody willing to take part.  The study
will take no longer than an hour and there will be no need to travel as the
study will be conducted remotely.  Anybody who is interested in taking part
in this study or would like further information, please contact us directly
at <hcw-studies at cs.manchester.ac.uk>.

I'd like to emphasise that any feedback at all will be useful to us and if
any person has had experience of using ARIA or Web 2.0 in general then
please feel free to send us comments.  If you are interested in
participating in any of these studies, or have comments and feedback, then
please contact us at <hcw- studies at cs.manchester.ac.uk>.

Many thanks

Darren

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University of Manchester (UK)
Human Centred Web Lab
http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk

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