Interesting...there is a group at University of Manchester studying
whether adding ARIA improves Web page accessibilty. The email thread
can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.accessibility/browse_thread/thread/011d8afe85d7fad4#
Does Fluid have any connections with Manchester (anyone from Manchester
reading this)? Could Fluid learn something from this; in particular,
how adding ARIA to Fluid components helps vis-a-vis accessibility? For
that matter, could such a study be part of the user design toolkit in
some way?
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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 or Firevox in conjunction with Firefox 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-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Many thanks
Darren
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Human Centred Web Lab
http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk
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