SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: [Sigia-l] 508 Compliance - Alt Tags
RE: [Sigia-l] 508 Compliance - Alt Tags for Button Images
From: Whitney Quesenbery (wq2_at_sufficiently.com)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 08:19:08 EDT
At 07:11 PM 10/2/2003 -0400, Tanya Rabourn wrote:
Can you point us to any published user studies that go over such
things? All I seem to come across are articles that suggest best
practices based on the capability of screenreaders like JAWS,
rarely do I find studies of how users actually use JAWS. Any
studies that you could point to involving observation of actual
user behavior among groups that benefit from sites that are built
to be "accessible" would be appreciated.
My reply:
You might be interested in this short article, and any subsequent
publications from the folks at NCI and Ginny Redish. Rather than see
whether people using screen readers could use a specific site, they looked
at how those people experiences the web
Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites
by Janice (Ginny) Redish and Mary Frances Theofanos
The Communications Technology Branch at the United States National Cancer
Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of
Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with blind
and low-vision users to:
· Understand how blind and low-vision users work with web sites.
· See the relationship between accessibility and usability.
· Assess the usability of specific web sites for blind and low-vision users.
In this article we focus on the first of these goals and give you some of
the fascinating findings about how vision-impaired users work with web sites.
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0304-observing.html
Whitney Quesenbery
Whitney Interactive Design, LLC
w. www.WQusability.com
e. whitneyq_at_wqusability.com
p. 908-638-5467
UPA - www.usabilityprofessionals.org
STC Usability SIG: www.stcsig.org/usability
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