Re: Persona Questionnaire

[Phillip Whiteside]

Hi Alan,

http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/Access  has been changed to
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/OGCR7tZiNX

Regards,

Phill.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Alan Bell <
alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:

> oops the link to the correct etherpad document is
> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/OGCR7tZiNX
>
> Alan.
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Re: Persona Questionnaire

[Alan Bell]

oops the link to the correct etherpad document is
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/OGCR7tZiNX

Alan.

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Re: Persona Questionnaire

[Phillip Whiteside]

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
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Persona Questionnaire

[Alan Bell]

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
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Re: Status of Speech Dispatcher package

[Bill Cox]

I packaged the 0.7 release of speech-dispatcher for Vinux, but it
broke compatibility with speechd-up, which is no longer maintained.
Most Vinux testers who use the testing repository rely on either
speechd-up or ospeakup, so I was forced to remove the new
speech-dispatcher package, as testers were all losing speech in their
consoles.

Alternatively, I could get speechd-up working with the latest
speech-dispatcher, but as ospeakup is maintained, and in much better
shape than the last release of speechd-up, I didn't see the point.

Bill

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Re: Status of Speech Dispatcher package

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:58:59PM EST, Boris Dusek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is anyone planning to package new releases of Speech Dispatcher (0.7 was
> released recently)?

Yes, since its now in Debian, it can be merged/udpated for Ubuntu maverick.

> I suppose the current packager (Luke Yelavich) has
> no interest to continue to do so based on what he has proposed [1], so on
> behalf of Brailcom, o.p.s., I announce that I will take care of packaging
> current (0.7) and future releases of Speech dispatcher for future Ubuntu
> releases, starting with Maverick (10.10).

Thanks for your offer of help. Even though I proposed that change, this does 
not mean I will totally abandon maintaining the speech-dispatcher package in 
Ubuntu. I still hoep that both projects can one day merge and work together 
again.

> I am already in the process of packaging Speech Dispatcher 0.7 for
> Maverick. Our employee, Milan Zamazal, is already the maintainer of the
> Speech Dispatcher package in Debian [2], so it will not be hard for us to
> maintain the Ubuntu package.

There are a few differences in packaging for Ubuntu that need to be carried, so 
the update procedure for this package now is what is known as a merge. This 
shouldn't take me too long to do, so I'm willing to help whereever I can to get 
this updated.

Luke

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Status of Speech Dispatcher package

[Boris Dusek]

Hello,

is anyone planning to package new releases of Speech Dispatcher (0.7 was
released recently)? I suppose the current packager (Luke Yelavich) has
no interest to continue to do so based on what he has proposed [1], so on
behalf of Brailcom, o.p.s., I announce that I will take care of packaging
current (0.7) and future releases of Speech dispatcher for future Ubuntu
releases, starting with Maverick (10.10).

I am already in the process of packaging Speech Dispatcher 0.7 for
Maverick. Our employee, Milan Zamazal, is already the maintainer of the
Speech Dispatcher package in Debian [2], so it will not be hard for us to
maintain the Ubuntu package.

Best regards,
Boris Dusek
Brailcom, o.p.s.

[1]: 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-opentts-to-replace-speech-dispatcher
[2]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/speech-dispatcher
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