Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)

[Darren-50]

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@...>.

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@...>.

Many thanks


Darren





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

[David Colven]

 A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK education in
IT Pro magazine.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/603639/becta-open-source-and-education-too-little-too
-late

David

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[Simon Judge]

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  

-----Original Message-----
From: oats-sig-bounces@...
[mailto:oats-sig-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Darren Lunn
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:07 AM
To: oats-sig@...
Cc: Andy Brown
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@...>.

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@...>.

Many thanks


Darren





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





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[Steve Lee-3]

On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven@...> wrote:
>  A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK education in
>  IT Pro magazine.

on Page 3

'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the
opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use
and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the
hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future
development of open source solutions, which provide both better value
for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the
classroom.'

The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta
dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n
outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown
to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot
of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid
under the leader ship of the Learning Machine  and it's to everyone's
credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open
Source in education is still of prime importance

For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512554721730323

or

http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html

--
Steve Lee
--
Open Source Assistive Technology Software
web: fullmeasure.co.uk
blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog

[Steve Lee-3]

It's just been pointed out to me that the OSC response was posted the next day

http://www.itpro.co.uk/603678/open-source-group-slams-education-body-becta

Steve

On 17/06/2008, Steve Lee <steve@...> wrote:

> On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven@...> wrote:
>  >  A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK education in
>  >  IT Pro magazine.
>
>
> on Page 3
>
>  'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the
>  opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use
>  and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the
>  hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future
>  development of open source solutions, which provide both better value
>  for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the
>  classroom.'
>
>  The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta
>  dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n
>  outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown
>  to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot
>  of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid
>  under the leader ship of the Learning Machine  and it's to everyone's
>  credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open
>  Source in education is still of prime importance
>
>  For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
>  http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512554721730323
>
>  or
>
>  http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>
>  --
>  Steve Lee
>
> --
>  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>

--
Steve Lee
--
Open Source Assistive Technology Software
web: fullmeasure.co.uk
blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog

[Simon Judge]

£270,000 million blimey, that's a lot!!! Typo me thinks.

S

-----Original Message-----
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To: colven@...; OATs Project Special Interest Group
Subject: Re: [oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)

It's just been pointed out to me that the OSC response was posted the next
day

http://www.itpro.co.uk/603678/open-source-group-slams-education-body-becta

Steve

On 17/06/2008, Steve Lee <steve@...> wrote:

> On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven@...> wrote:
>  >  A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK
> education in  >  IT Pro magazine.
>
>
> on Page 3
>
>  'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the  
> opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use  
> and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the  
> hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future  
> development of open source solutions, which provide both better value  
> for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the  
> classroom.'
>
>  The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta  
> dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n  
> outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown  
> to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot  
> of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid  
> under the leader ship of the Learning Machine  and it's to everyone's  
> credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open  
> Source in education is still of prime importance
>
>  For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
>  
> http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512
> 554721730323
>
>  or
>
>  http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>
>  --
>  Steve Lee
>
> --
>  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>

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--
Open Source Assistive Technology Software
web: fullmeasure.co.uk
blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog




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[Steve Lee-3]

now that would be usefull ;-)
270K more like.

Steve

On 17/06/2008, Simon Judge <simon.judge@...> wrote:

> £270,000 million blimey, that's a lot!!! Typo me thinks.
>
>
>  S
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: oats-sig-bounces@...
>
> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
>  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:58 PM
>  To: colven@...; OATs Project Special Interest Group
>  Subject: Re: [oats-sig] Dynamically Updating Web Pages (AJAX Experiments)
>
>  It's just been pointed out to me that the OSC response was posted the next
>  day
>
>  http://www.itpro.co.uk/603678/open-source-group-slams-education-body-becta
>
>  Steve
>
>  On 17/06/2008, Steve Lee <steve@...> wrote:
>  > On 17/06/2008, David Colven <colven@...> wrote:
>  >  >  A bit of a diatribe but cogently worded article re OSS and UK
>  > education in  >  IT Pro magazine.
>  >
>  >
>  > on Page 3
>  >
>  >  'The Schools Open Source Project will give a bidding company the
>  > opportunity to spend two years building a community of schools to use
>  > and develop open source alternatives to Microsoft software, in the
>  > hope that a level playing field can be encouraged for the future
>  > development of open source solutions, which provide both better value
>  > for money and a wider curriculum of computer-related activities in the
>  > classroom.'
>  >
>  >  The Open Source community are still recovering from the way Becta
>  > dealt with the bidding process after the contract was given to a n
>  > outfit with no known track record of experience in FOSS and is unknown
>  > to the community. Things have calmed down a bit now but there is a lot
>  > of frustration and a complaint will be made. Schoolforge put in a bid
>  > under the leader ship of the Learning Machine  and it's to everyone's
>  > credit that their commitment to encouraging all interested in Open
>  > Source in education is still of prime importance
>  >
>  >  For more see the schoolforge mailing list archives, eg
>  >
>  > http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/browse_thread/thread/b512
>  > 554721730323
>  >
>  >  or
>  >
>  >  http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/376369.html
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Steve Lee
>  >
>  > --
>  >  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  >  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  >  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>  >
>
>
>  --
>  Steve Lee
>  --
>  Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>  web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>  blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>
>
>
>
>
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