Thank you to everyone who participated in the previous study I recruited for on this forum (the one about inclusive hurricane maps). Our prototype improved a great deal thanks to the high-quality feedback we received.
I'm working on a different project for research related to making creating accessible digital whiteboarding tools (e.g. Miro, Figjam) for collaboration. We are also looking for VoiceOver (MacOS and/or iOS) users specifically located in the US.
If you are interested, here are the details of the study:
We are researchers at the CS/HCC Program at Georgia Tech with Dr. Roberts at the TILES lab and we are recruiting participants for a research study evaluating accessibility tools for collaborative digital whiteboarding, assessing whether sighted and blind/low vision users can effectively engage with a digital prototype whiteboarding environment.
We are looking for both sighted and blind/low vision individuals to participate in a 30-to-45 minute interview remotely using Zoom or Microsoft Teams. We will have you interact with our prototype individually or with another individual to provide feedback and help us understand how we can facilitate collaboration on online whiteboarding platforms. The interviews will be screen recorded and audio recorded solely for research purposes and will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
This study is part of a class project for CS 8903: Special Problems. Your participation will be valuable to our project, and we would be grateful to have you participate in our interview. You will be compensated $20 for your time.
To be eligible, you must be able to understand and speak English, be in the United States at the time of the session and be 18 years of age or over. Please let us know if you would be available for a brief interview at your earliest convenience, and we can coordinate a suitable time that accommodates your schedule. If you have questions or are interested in participating, please contact Seik Oh (seik_oh@gatech.edu) and Emily Amspoker (eamspoker3@gatech.edu).
Thank you for considering our request, and we look forward to the possibility of speaking with you soon.
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Well I am outside US, but this sounds good
I have no idea how whiteboarding, or anything to do with drawing can be made accessible for screen reader users. If you managed to pull it off, it might be first of it's kind.
Even most accessible apps, the likes of Google Keep, OneNote, Figma, etc, are fully inaccessible when there's anything to do with drawing. May be you can add Alt-text, or get AI to describe it, but, drawing things independently is something most blind users struggle with.
On the creation side, It's either tell Chat GPT to make something for us, and get it verified by Be My Eyes or another human, or don't do it at all.
We usually just sit quiet and try to make sense of things based on verbal discussions and descriptions when things like wireframes, blue-prints, etc are being discussed.