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<DIV><SPAN class=046544017-19042007>Thanks, Shawn. I hadn't yet tried it
with JAWS; I'm a keyboard user and had so far been able to make my way thru the
site using no mouse, although some pages had so many links and so much content
that I knew they would be hellacious to listen through with JAWS. I had
only found one graphic without a meaningful alt tag, which also had my hopes
up. But guess this means I won't be using or recommending this company...
at least not yet. Will keep my hopes up that they take the feedback
seriously, and I'll share some with them as well.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=046544017-19042007>Thanks!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=046544017-19042007>Teresa</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left>-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> athen-bounces@athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Shawn
Foster<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:18 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Access
Technologists in Higher Education Network'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Athen] Liz
Bottner research (acessible survey)<BR><BR></DIV>
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Teresa:</DIV>
<DIV>I tried it out with a couple of my more savvy students. The ZoomText user
reported no problems... but then his response never logged because he missed
the "submit" button! The JAWS user was extremely frustrated and had to
have sighted assistance to complete the survey.</DIV>
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<DIV>I contacted the developers. At least one seems to be interested in
receiving some feedback from AT users. Of course, that doesn't guarantee
action!</DIV>
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<DIV>Shawn Foster<BR>Assistive Technology Specialist</DIV>
<DIV>Disability Services for Students<BR>Southern Oregon University<BR>email:
fosters@sou.edu<BR>phone: (541)552-6213</DIV>
<DIV>Office hours: 8-2, M-F</DIV><BR><BR>>>> On 4/19/2007 at 9:18 AM,
in message <006301c7829e$50d50590$07d2b882@CSDAdTech>, Teresa Wells
Haven <tlwells@uark.edu> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=546141616-19042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Dann, as it so happens I'm working my way through <A
href="http://www.surveyz.com/">www.surveyz.com</A> today to try to determine
the level of accessibility of their survey tool/service. Does anyone out
there in ATHEN already have experience/comments with SurveyZ? At the
moment it's appearing fairly good to me, but haven't yet had much time to
play with it...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=546141616-19042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=4>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=4>Teresa</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Berkowitz, Daniel J<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:28
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Liz Bottner<BR><B>Cc:</B> Access Technologists in Higher
Education Network<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Athen] Liz Bottner research (acessible
survey)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Liz,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am sharing this
e-mail with colleagues from the Access Technologist Higher Education
Network. Several members have been working on the issue of accessible
web-based survey tools and perhaps one of them can offer assistance or at
least discuss this with you further. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cheers --- Dann<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<BR>Daniel Berkowitz - Assistant Director <BR>Boston University Office of
Disability Services <BR>19 Deerfield Street, 2nd floor <BR><st1:place
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Liz
Bottner [mailto:lizb@udel.edu] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:34
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Berkowitz, Daniel
J<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> My
research</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Dann:
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I want to thank you for
responding to my post regarding my research. The topic of information
access is of most interest to me, and is of great importance not only to
myself, but, I feel, to everyone, and is definitely worth researching.
I myself use a combination of Braille and computer/assistive technology in
order to obtain that access. Information should be available to
everyone, not just one specific sect of the population, and I strongly
believe that the combination of using Braille and assistive technology
together, and not just either one or the other alone, helps close that
information gap. Some things are easier to do with hardcopy Braille,
such as skimming a document, finding specific pages, and even proofreading,
whereas computer/assistive technology is a better solution in other
instances; completing assignments, access to the Internet, and reading books
that would otherwise be too huge to carry around were they in multiple
Braille volumes. (Instead of only being able to carry around one book
or part of a book, we can carry around thousands of books either on our
laptop computers or portable note taking devices). Some find that by
listening to speech, they can also read faster than were they to read the
same thing in Braille. These are some of my thoughts and opinions on
the topic, at any rate, to give you an idea of my take on things and where
I'm trying to go with my research, which I hopefully have been able to
do.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regarding a survey, I would love
to be able to implement an online survey as that would probably be easier
for people to answer and I'm guessing also easier for me to compile the
responses once people have completed it. In that, though, I have no
idea how to go about creating one. For previous surveys, I have just
written out a Microsoft Word document of the survey and stored each person's
completed survey in a particular folder on my computer, organizing things
that way. If you would be able to help me create an online survey or
know of someone who would be willing, I would be greatly interested. I
have an idea of the questions I want to ask, (the survey really isn't that
involved and shouldn't be that long), so perhaps making it available online
wouldn't be that hard to do? I don't know.
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you, take care, and
whatever help or suggestions you would be able to offer me in completing my
research is greatly appreciated. </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks again,
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Liz
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Email:
<A href="mailto:lizb@udel.edu">lizb@udel.edu</A> Visit my Live Journal: <A
href="http://unsilenceddream.livejournal.com/">http://unsilenceddream.livejournal.com</A>
</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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