Subject: Help with Accessible Graphs survey We are with an organization called SimBio that makes simulation-based software for teaching biology to college students. Our group is working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation to make biology labs more accessible to blind and low-vision students, and we need your help. The first part of the project is researching whether an Audible Graph - a graph that uses sounds rather than lines - can be effective for interpreting data from simulations. As we find ways to make such graphs effective, we will publicize the results so that future educational simulations can use Audible Graphs to be more accessible. Our first step is an audible survey asking participants to interpret different graphs, using different types of sounds. We need several hundred people to help us by taking the survey by June 25. We are especially interested in having blind and low-vision college students take the survey, but welcome participation from everyone. If you have 20 minutes, we would greatly appreciate your taking this anonymous survey using the following link: imagealive.net/simbio/simsoundplayground/ And if you are part of any communities of blind and low-vision students, or have any friends who might be part of those communities, it would be wonderful if you could forward this announcement on to others that might be able to help as well. Thanks so much, and we are hopeful that this will contribute to improving accessibility in science education tools. Eli M eir, Eleanor Steinberg, Geoff Pepos, and the rest of the SimBio Audible Graph team
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:09:13 +0000
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