A research team at SimBio has been working on an
NSF-funded project to make simulated biology
labs, such as SimBio's, more accessible to blind
and low-vision students. We're at a point where we need your help.
We are currently investigating whether graphs
that use sounds rather than lines, which we call
Audible Graphs, can be effective for
interpreting data from simulations. To guide our
design, we have made an audible survey which
asks participants to interpret different graphs
using different types of sounds. We need several
hundred people to take 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.
Click the link below to take this anonymous
survey. We'd welcome you taking it yourself,
along with any students you are currently teaching:
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If you have had any blind or low-vision students
in your classes recently, or if there is an
office at your school which would have contact
with such students, it would be a great help if
you could pass this announcement along. They
don't need to be science students (and in fact,
they don't need to be students at allif you are
part of any blind and low-vision communities
outside of school it would be wonderful if you
could forward this announcement on to them as well).
We will be publishing our results so that all
designers of educational software can make use
of them. We are hopeful that this will
contribute to improving accessibility in science education tools.
Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give us.
Eleanor Steinberg, Geoff Pepos, Eli Meir, and
the rest of the SimBio Audible Graph team
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