Hi Alan, I've taken the liberty to post the request to http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=16362 it is a site that has helped me get my 'AAA' / Level 3 accessibility compliance. They're a pretty demanding crowd, so do not expect them to "pull their punches".
Regards, Phill. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Alan Bell < alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote: > One of the projects kicked off by the accessibility team at the Ubuntu > Developer Summit was to create a set of personas or fictional characters > with accessibility needs. The design team have a set of personas already, > each with different skills and life experiences and it is these people they > think about when designing the user interface. One of their personas (Lola, > a 29 year old PhD student living in Paris) is partially sighted and uses > assistive technology. This is a great start, but we want to provide the > design team and all those working on Ubuntu with some more detailed personas > with an assortment of needs. The aim is to educate and motivate all those > working on Ubuntu, accessibility isn't just a technical feature, it is about > people and if some part of the system isn't available for everyone then it > is broken. > In order to write a series of fictional, but believable characters we have > put together a survey asking people to tell us about themselves and the > issues they find when interacting with computers. We collaborated on the > questions that should be asked here http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/Access and > now we have taken the results of that work and built an online form > http://access.libertus.co.uk and an alternative text version > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Personas/Survey which can be emailed > to ubuntu.accessibility.sur...@gmail.com > > Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey and pass it on to friends > and relatives who may be able to provide interesting and useful answers. > > When the results are in (by August 8th or thereabouts) we will start the > process of writing up the personas using the survey answers as > inspiration.This will generate our realistic, but fictional, characters who > will help make Ubuntu better for everyone. > > Thanks to all those who helped get the survey this far. > > Alan > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > >
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