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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paid Research Opportunity with Perkins Access</span></strong></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perkins Access Consulting, in partnership with Curriculum Associates, is seeking blind and visually impaired elementary and middle school students (grades 4-8) to participate in a paid user experience research study. This research will help ensure that i-Ready, a widely used digital literacy platform, is fully accessible and user-friendly for students with visual disabilities.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why participate?</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your child's feedback will directly contribute to improving the accessibility of a platform used by students across the country. This is not a test of student abilities—we simply want to understand how well i-Ready’s literacy lessons work with screen readers and magnification software, and how they can be improved.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who we’re looking for:</span></strong></p>
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<li class="email-components" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blind or visually impaired students in grades 4-8 who use screen readers or magnification software to access their school curriculum.</span></li>
<li class="email-components" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parents and teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs) are welcome to join the sessions.</span></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Session Details:</span></strong></p>
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<li class="email-components" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>In-Person (at Perkins) </strong>– Available for students who use screen magnification software and can attend in person. Sessions will be held on the Perkins campus in April.</span></li>
<li class="email-components" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Remote (via Zoom)</strong> – Available for students who use screen readers. Remote sessions will be held in April.</span></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Testing windows:</strong> April 14-18, April 21-25, or April 28-May 2.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Compensation:</strong> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Participants (students and TVIs) will receive a $75 gift card for a one-hour session. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An additional $25 transportation reimbursement is available for in-person participants who need it.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interested? </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Email Tanja Milojevic at <a href="mailto:tanja.milojevic@perkins.org" data-link-type="2" data-mailto="tanja.milojevic@perkins.org">tanja.milojevic@perkins.org</a> to sign up or learn more.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please feel free to share this opportunity with your networks. Thank you for your support in making education more accessible!</span></p>
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