Hi Alan, thanks for all of your work on this and to everyone else who is
working on it.
My eye condition is like the Simon persona, I am visually impaired and
losing my eyesight, use a 32 inch TV for my monitor. Unfortunately, this
site you posted is not easily usable in lynx web browser, which I use
because the text console is easier to see and also works better with
speech such as is provided with speakup a screen reader for the virtual
console. When I do have to use the GUI, I not only use high contrast, but
also large print because the magnifiers in Linux are clunky and difficult
to use whereas large bold print with high contrast is way easier to
follow. Just a little input from a real live example of that persona.
Kind Regards and Thank You,
Pia
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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