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Calling All Visually impaired of Blind individuals that have attended college or in college. (self.Blind)
submitted by defjam903
Hello All,
I want to start off by saying thank you for being in such an excellent group as a community we can grow and learn from each other. I am a visually impaired individual working on my doctorate and I have made it to the point of research, and I need help from you all. I have a survey that I am requesting that you all help me with if you have attended college or in college and have any vision impairment, please complete this survey for me.
I am looking at what motivates students to want to go to college and get a degree with a vision impairment or complete blindness. Please spread the word to any friends or others that meet the criteria I hope to graduate this Fall if I get enough responses in my survey.
Survey Link
$1
PS
JAWS, ZoomText, **ChromeVox** Compatible
All Data will be shared once survey is complete as well as a complementary website just for this survey breaking down the data for everyone in the community can see the progress and outcome of this study as well as others.
I want to start off by saying thank you for being in such an excellent group as a community we can grow and learn from each other. I am a visually impaired individual working on my doctorate and I have made it to the point of research, and I need help from you all. I have a survey that I am requesting that you all help me with if you have attended college or in college and have any vision impairment, please complete this survey for me.
I am looking at what motivates students to want to go to college and get a degree with a vision impairment or complete blindness. Please spread the word to any friends or others that meet the criteria I hope to graduate this Fall if I get enough responses in my survey.
Survey Link
$1
PS
JAWS, ZoomText, **ChromeVox** Compatible
All Data will be shared once survey is complete as well as a complementary website just for this survey breaking down the data for everyone in the community can see the progress and outcome of this study as well as others.
GrumpyFinn 4 points 5y ago
I filled this out, but wow was that a sloppily-done form. I encourage you to go back and clean those questions up a bit.
defjam903 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
can you give me some feedback on what i could do to clean the form up ?
dmazzoni 1 points 5y ago
One question asks about this thermodynamics class, for example.
defjam903 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
>thermodynamics
I have been given permission to explain or required this question than you for letting me know that it may have been unclear to others.
I have been given permission to explain or required this question than you for letting me know that it may have been unclear to others.
bradley22 3 points 5y ago
I tried filling out the survey but have a couple of issues:
1. On the first page the survey is made up mostly of headings.
Here's what I hear when using NVDA.
Heading level 1. start of text, heading level 1.
Heading level 1. more text heading, level 1.
heading level 1. End of text heading level 1.
If you can, using <P> tags after the first heading would help.
For example; heading level 1. Welcome to my survey.
<p>This is a survey that talks about visual impairments</P>
I'm not sure if this helps,, I understand that most survey platforms probably aren't going to let you mess around with the code.
2. I have no idea what a freshman,, sophomore and so on, means. I'm in London and as far as I know, we don't have this kind of system.
If these things are fixed/explained in the survey, if they can be; I'll fill it out.
1. On the first page the survey is made up mostly of headings.
Here's what I hear when using NVDA.
Heading level 1. start of text, heading level 1.
Heading level 1. more text heading, level 1.
heading level 1. End of text heading level 1.
If you can, using <P> tags after the first heading would help.
For example; heading level 1. Welcome to my survey.
<p>This is a survey that talks about visual impairments</P>
I'm not sure if this helps,, I understand that most survey platforms probably aren't going to let you mess around with the code.
2. I have no idea what a freshman,, sophomore and so on, means. I'm in London and as far as I know, we don't have this kind of system.
If these things are fixed/explained in the survey, if they can be; I'll fill it out.
bradley22 1 points 5y ago
I filled out the survey.
defjam903 [OP] 1 points 5y ago
Thank you i will have this corrected i think i can mess with the HTML a bit some of the headings were a requirement of my university but i will explain the issues that the community is having and Again thank you so much for the feedback.Also i will correct the College level so it can have another section for other or open ended this is more of demographics and doe snot relate to teh data that will be crunched as much.
EndlessReverberation 1 points 5y ago
What on earth is GlassEye?
defjam903 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
This is an extension from google that does screen reading similar to ZoomText but i se teh name was changed now its **ChromeVox**
EndlessReverberation 1 points 5y ago
O Chrome vox, haha it has been called tht for a long time.
Warthil 1 points 5y ago
I rarely like to do surveys. Your survey was an exception. I like the fact that you provided the basic research information and doctoral supervisor before I began the survey. Good luck with your doctoral studies. I think motivation and barriers to higher education are an important conversation.
defjam903 [OP] 2 points 5y ago
Thank you this topic has not been researched enough and it may take many studies after mine to nail down the motivation and help colleges and universities understand the barriers for students with VI. As a visually impaired student myself it was hard to ask questions that only mattered to me.
Evio -6 points 5y ago
Anybody else annoyed at how most blind/deaf forums seem to have non contributors who clog up with posts about surveys that don't compensate for their time or promise to at least share their data?
Dude, take a sensitivity class.
Dude, take a sensitivity class.
defjam903 [OP] 4 points 5y ago
Hello,
I want to chime in and state that i am visually impaired myself and the reason i am doing this survey is i care about the community and this study will be shared once data is gathered and study is complete. So Stay tuned a site will be published with the data and findings as well as the full dissertation.
Also the best compensation for this study is making this topic more researched and discussed giving something for time is not always a physical item but the joy of having cretin questions answered.
I want to chime in and state that i am visually impaired myself and the reason i am doing this survey is i care about the community and this study will be shared once data is gathered and study is complete. So Stay tuned a site will be published with the data and findings as well as the full dissertation.
Also the best compensation for this study is making this topic more researched and discussed giving something for time is not always a physical item but the joy of having cretin questions answered.
impablomations 3 points 5y ago
As OP has stated, he/she is visually impaired and all data will be shared.
As for being a non contributor, everyone is welcome here so please don't gatekeep - especially when your only interaction with the sub is this single comment.
As for being a non contributor, everyone is welcome here so please don't gatekeep - especially when your only interaction with the sub is this single comment.
Evio -1 points 5y ago
I dont belive its gate keeping, its just me commenting on the state of blind/deaf online forums. Cant tell you how many statstic students use small forums for free labor. It tends to be a sign of poor moderation or lack of community stimulation. (Sorry, I know thats a negative comment nobody wants to hear) ive watched many a Facebook group dissolve into just these sort of posts. All others are forced to go private to escape it. So im asking, anybody else sick of it? Can we have the mods discuss the impact of allowing this?
Also definitely not my only interaction in here.
Edit: gonna add that I grew up takings these survays in exchange for money. These used to be paid.
Also definitely not my only interaction in here.
Edit: gonna add that I grew up takings these survays in exchange for money. These used to be paid.
impablomations 2 points 5y ago
Not according to Reddit.
>Can we have the mods discuss the impact of allowing this?
We had a thread about that 3 months ago, most had no issue with them.
>Can we have the mods discuss the impact of allowing this?
We had a thread about that 3 months ago, most had no issue with them.
Evio 1 points 5y ago
Fair enough then.
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