Hi Dean, We're just about done our overall review. We've done both an accessibility walkthrough and user testing with about a dozen users in two different countries (Canada and Spain), including some with motor challenges, vision impairment, or blindness.
Would you have time early next week to chat about the results? Monday (February 13), Tuesday (February 14), or Wednesday (February 15) before noon Eastern would work for Michelle, Tona, and me. Best, James On 2012-01-17, at 9:14 PM, Dean Jansen wrote: > Hi Michelle, > > Very exciting! > > And yes, a broader discussion with some of our product team, once the review > is complete, sounds great. > > Best, > Dean > > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, D'Souza, Michelle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dean, > > I'm also excited about this partnership - I've wanted to work on this since > Nicholas came by and chatted with us last year. :) > > We've started with some background work like getting familiar with what > Universal Subtitles is and how the current interactions work. James and Tona > have done some user testing and are working on consolidating their notes and > findings. It should be interesting to go through what they've found. I expect > to do an accessibility review by the end of the week which will hopefully > lead to some simple fixes and improvements. > > Once we've gathered our findings it would be really great to meet with the > larger team to talk it all through. > > Michelle > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Michelle D'Souza > Senior Inclusive Developer > Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University > > > > On 2011-12-22, at 4:59 PM, Dean Jansen wrote: > >> Hey Colin, >> >> Thanks for helping to organize this project; I'm really excited that our >> orgs will be working together! >> >> Maybe in January, when things kick off, we can do an introductory thread to >> Craig (product director), Arthur (lead dev), and the rest of the team. Just >> let me know when you guys would like to do that. In the mean time, enjoy the >> holidays and have a great new year. >> >> Best, >> Dean >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Clark, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I had a nice chat this afternoon with Dean Jansen from the Participatory >> Culture Foundation about how Fluid can help out with the accessibility of >> Universal Subtitles (http://www.universalsubtitles.org/). As part of our >> Floe roadmap, we're keen to be both users of and contributors to Universal >> Subtitles, so this seems like a great way to engage with them. >> >> To start, James and Tona have been working on some usability testing ideas >> for Universal Subtitles in our wiki: >> >> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Universal+Subtitles+user+testing+protocol >> >> In the new year, we're planning to recruit some users (including those with >> disabilities) to try out Universal Subtitles and share their experiences. >> This will give us a "big picture" view of how we can help contribute to its >> usability and accessibility. On the other side, I've volunteered Michelle >> (eek!) to help coordinate some technical-level accessibility UX Walkthroughs >> of Universal Subtitles, testing both in a keyboard-only situation as well as >> with some assistive technologies. From there, we'll work closely with the >> Universal Subtitles community to triage the issues and submit some patches >> to help make improvements. >> >> In terms of timelines, we're hoping to get started with some of the testing >> during the second week in January, once we've settled in after the holiday >> break. PCF has offered to have a developer help us with triaging and bug >> fixing towards the end of January. >> >> If anyone is interested in lending a hand by helping with accessibility >> testing or participating in James and Tona's user testing, please don't >> hesitate to get involved--we'd love to have you! >> >> Have a great holiday, >> >> Colin >> >> --- >> Colin Clark >> Lead Software Architect, >> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University >> http://inclusivedesign.ca >> >> > >
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