Hi all,
one of the actions from UDS was to crack on and get more of the persona
documents out, these help us to communicate the need for accessibility
considerations to be included in the design process. We have already
published Faisal (fine motor control, pain and color blindness)
http://ubuntuaccessibility.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/meet-faisal/ and
Daniela (fully blind)
http://ubuntuaccessibility.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/meet-daniela/ and we
have outline plans for Simon (partially sighted), John (deaf) and
Henrietta (cognitive and memory issues)
I would like to propose we work together on the remaining personas we
want to cover, starting with Simon as the next one to publish. Simon is
visually impaired, but not completely blind, so will use a large monitor
with screen magnifiers and high contrast settings rather than full time
screen reader use. His vision might be getting worse over time, so he
might be learning to use Orca, and might like some more audio cues from
the desktop.
We are using the following page to collaboratively draft the text
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/simon and will be chatting in the
#ubuntu-accessibility IRC channel. The personas are written to a rough
framework of topics which match the personas used internally at
Canonical by the design team, so we want to fit in with that, but
present some more interesting design challenges.
It would be great to get as many people involved as possible in the
drafting and editing process, particularly those with knowledge of
visual impairments. The personas should be accurate and informative, and
at least as important, they should be interesting and nice people. I am
not setting any particular time for working on this, but I imagine there
will be people online and active throughout the day for Europe and USA
Alan.
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