Personas Survey Creation

[Bruno Girin]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 08:36 -0400, Penelope Stowe wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> Alan Bell and I have been working on the questionnaire that we'll
> distribute to gather the information to create the accessibility
> personas. What we have so far is up at
> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/OGCR7tZiNX and we'd really appreciate any
> feedback and/or additions to it.

Hi Penelope,

What about starting with the personas introduced by Mark Pilgrim in Dive
into Accessibility [1]? Although the book targets web designers, the
personas are also valid for desktop use. As a non-disabled software
specialist who tries to include accessibility in my projects, I have
found the personas in that book very useful to understand challenges
faced by disabled users and how I could help alleviate them.
Furthermore, this book is published under the GNU Free Documentation
License [2] so there should be no problem in using its content.

[1] http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
[2] http://diveintoaccessibility.org/terms_of_use.html

Bruno