Persona writing sprint this weekend 12th and 13th November

[Alan Bell]

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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