This week we presented our prototype to four groups of judges. We received valuable feedback about some difficult components of our project, including that we use dynamic linked library (DLL) hooks to intercept keystroke input at the kernel level from JAWS. We were also suggested to speak with visually impaired individuals by Dr. Latorre. He recognized that someone who had never used JAWS before would struggle with the program, not due to using suboptimal keystrokes, but because they were simply not familiar with the program. The ideal candidate to review our nudging system, he suggested, would be someone with some level of competency in JAWS but also not expertise with the software to the extent that they know all 300+ keystrokes. We realized that this is an important factor to consider as there is little purpose in nudging someone when they have no idea what is going on.

As we have completed a major milestone (the prototype inspection #1), we now have more free time to work on the core components of our system, which includes a Python server to generate graphs of our webpage and Dijkstra’s algorithm to find the shortest paths between nodes on a webpage.