##What will I be asked to do?
Participants will be asked to complete the questionnaire online. Participants will be asked to answer a number of questions about themselves and their use of the web, graphs, charts, and assistive technologies. This will include questions about their level of sight.
##Time Commitment:
This is an online study that you can complete at your own pace, if the site is kept open, the answers will be remembered until the browser or tab is closed. This will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
##Am I obligated to take part?
Participation is entirely voluntary. You may decide to stop being a part of the research study at any time without explanation, if you wish to do so please close the browser. However, as this study is anonymous once you submit your data we will not be able to remove it as it will not be identifiable.
##Are there any risks?
There are no known risks for you in this experiment.
##Confidentiality/Anonymity:
The data collected will be seen by the researcher and the supervisor only. The answers to the questionnaires and short-answer questions will be anonymous. The anonymised data will be analysed and presented to the examining board and used in the (publically available) report. All the data collected will be kept anonymous, only non-identifying aggregate data will be used inside of the study.
##Further information about this project:
If you require further information about this study you can contact myself or my project supervisor my university email is b1037178@shu.ac.uk and my name is George Langham. My supervisor Dharmendra Shadija’s email is cmsds@exchange.shu.ac.uk. At the end of the study we will allow you to leave a contact e-mail and your name, this is for a future one-to-one interview and app testing and is NOT a requirement.
If you are not comfortable with answering any of the questions asked, you are free to close and stop answering the survey (and no data will be stored) or to simply answer "I'd rather not say" on the specific question.
#NO DATA IS STORED UNTIL THE SUBMIT BUTTON IS USED AT THE END OF THE SURVEY.
#THE SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY ETHICS COMMITTEE HAS REVIEWED AND APPROVED THIS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STUDY.
http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en#/H54 (The World Health Organisation's International Classification of Diseases, Ilnesses and Disabilities version 10 also known as ICD10) is where I am taking the definitions of Visual Impairment and Blindness from. These Definitions were made by the World Health Organisation(WHO) in association with The International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO)
WHO website: https://who.int ICO Website: https://www.icoph.org