Re: [Freedos-devel] Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-30 Thread Bret Johnson
> Anyone else have documentation they'd like to suggest? (If you want to > suggest some docs, reply to this thread BY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 and I'll > send a list to the instructor. He can pick from that.) > > Jim How about the documentation for my PRTSCR program (available for download at http://br

Re: [Freedos-devel] Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
> > On 11/28/2022 2:52 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone have documentation they would like to have tested for usability? > >[..] On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Gregory Pietsch wrote: > > I wonder if the documentation I wrote for FreeDOS Edlin is adequate. -- > Gregory > If you're as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
If you're curious about usability testing for documentation: Testing documentation is similar to a software usability test, but the details are different. Effectively, you start with a general description of what the documentation is ("this is a Readme file for how to do X") and the tester identi

[Freedos-devel] Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
Does anyone have documentation they would like to have tested for usability? I teach part-time at a university, and a colleague is looking for projects for his class to work on next semester (January through May). Specifically, he is interested in working with a project on documentation (this is n