Works for us. Talk to you next week!

Best,
James

On 2012-02-08, at 9:49 AM, Dean Jansen wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> That's awesome news... really looking forward to hearing how things went!
> 
> Shall we plan to chat at 11am ET on Wed the 15th?
> 
> Best,
> Dean
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, James W. Yoon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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