Hi Sam,
Your efforts really deserve appreciation. It would be great if you
send the questions as attachment. That would be easy for me to fill.
Best
On 12/6/10, Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visuall St. Xavier's
College xr...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear All
The Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC),
St.Xavier’s College, Mumbai seeks your inputs to identify some of the most
urgent needs in the arena of consumer access for the visually impaired. In
order to ensure that our work is always guided by the ground realities and
needs we seek your support.
We are doing a baseline survey for this purpose and the questionnaire is
attached. We would be extremely grateful to you if you can spare 15 minutes
of your valuable time to give us your inputs and insights. Your thoughts
will help us form the base to identify the key areas of work that need to be
taken up in the area of Consumer Access and we hope that in the coming years
the centre will be able to meet some of these needs.
Below this message we have given our questionnaire. You can copy and paste
it in a word / text file. Fill and send it to i...@xrcvc.org
Look forward to your responses by 24th December 2010
Thanking you
Regards
Dr Sam Taraporevala,
Director, XRCVC
XRCVC QUESTIONNAIRE ON CONSUMER GOODS ACCESS
(Instructions to fill up the form - Please write your answer below the
questions. Give blank lines if necessary. Please send over the filled form
to i...@xrcvc.org latest by 24th Dec 2010.)
SECTION 1: DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
1. Name (this field is Optional if you do not want to disclose we are okay)
2. Would you like the XRCVC to keep you updated with our developments on our
project ‘Consumer Access’?
Yes / No (keep your choice and delete the other word)
If Yes please provide below details.
Email id:
Contact Numbers residence and mobile:
3. Would you like to participate in group discussions and other processes of
project ‘Consumer Access’ so that the products that we begin work on meet
consumer needs more closely?
Yes / No (keep your choice and delete the other word)
5. Age:
6. Gender:
7. Profession:
8. Annual Income: Below 1.5 Lakhs/1.5-3 lakhs/3- 5 Lakhs/5 Lakhs and above.
(keep your choice and delete the other options)
9. Level of vision: Totally blind/Low vision. (keep your choice and delete
the other options)
SECTION 2: CONSUMER GOODS USAGE:
1. Which electronic/electrical items do you use regularly? List 5 to 10.
(e.g.. T.V, ovens, watches, radio, calculators, switch boards, etc.) as
points a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, etc.
2. Of the items listed above what are the specific problems that you find in
using the same independently? List 5 key concerns as points a, b, c, d and
e.
3. Which electronic item(s) you wish you could use independently but have
always found it really hard to?
4. What are the other goods and items that you can’t go to buy alone or
identify alone? (This could be anything ranging from clothes, books,
medicines, food items etc)
5. During your day which are the items for which you have to almost always
use sighted help for identification?
6. Do you go out to shop alone? Yes/No (keep your choice and delete the
other word)
7. When you go out to shop in a supermarket or a mall what are things that
you find more difficult to locate?
8. What are 3 main difficulties that you face when you go to shop alone?
9. Which 3 consumer services you have found most difficult to access
independently? Please state reasons for each. Services and not products.
(E.g. dinning out, movies, Cable T.V service, telephone, banking, libraries,
transport etc)
10. Do you have any specific company or product for whom you would like the
XRCVC to begin work to make the products accessible for the visually
impaired
11. Personally while accessing labels, medicines etc besides asking for
sighted help what other methods do you use/identify them independently?
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