On 10/11/11 11:04, Hugh Sasse wrote:
Thank you (all) for the work on this.
I've not been very active at all on this, but would like to contribute.
I've forgotten what I need to do to get (re-)started on the Pad system.
It might be useful to have a link or two about that.
basically go to the pad page in a graphical browser and start typing
anywhere you want.
Will there be more than one VI persona? Our needs are different, and
conflict! There have been times when I've needed lots of light, and times
when I have been photophobic, just as an example. :-)
in the plan we are separating blind from VI, but I am hoping we can get
all the VI needs boiled down into one persona (given we already have
Faisal who is colourblind). RP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinitis_pigmentosa is a good choice as it
is progressive, which means we can get various levels of VI in the one
persona. We could do loads of persona documents and cover *everything*
but I think it is a better choice to cover the needs of the Ubuntu
target audience in a minimal set that the non-a11y specialist
contributers to Ubuntu can understand. So the personas should represent
all the Ubuntu users, but the target audience of our persona project is
all developers and contributors, not just those working on stuff like
zoom and screen readers.
RP is an interesting choice because it does occur with deafness in
Usher Syndrome.
I have things I'd like to see mentioned, but I don't want to write
them up if they would misrepresent the needs of someone with RP.
For example:
NS-WYSIWYG - Non-Strict WYSIWYG -- We Know the paper will be
white but the screen white is *not* WYSIWYG because paper does
not glow, reading a printed page is not like staring into a
light bulb: allow me to reverse the colours or choose something
else. I never did convince Star Office devs of this.
A Magnifier that works by warping the screen, so none of it is
hidden. The non-magnified parts are compressed, so you can still
see where you are relatively. Maybe the GPU and display drivers
could be made to do this?
And I'd like to be able to change the mouse to screen sized
crosshairs like on the old Tektronix terminals, so you cannot
lose the pointer.
That's all I can think of at the moment. Well, that's 3 impossible
things before US breakfast time.
Hugh
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Alan Bell wrote:
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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