Persona writing sprint this weekend 12th and 13th November

[Alan Bell]

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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