RE: EOWG, reply on list: Ideas for Involving Users in Evaluate Highlight

Hi Shawn and list
Here we sometimes use the expression "use the users" I don't know if it works in other languages - just a quick reflection.
Cheers
Helle 

Sincerely
Helle Bjarnø
Visual Impairment Knowledge Centre
Rymarksvej 1, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark
Phone: +45 39 46 01 01
fax: +45 39 61 94 14
e-mail hbj@visinfo.dk
Direct phone: +45 39 46 01 04
Mobile: +45 20 43 43 47
www.visinfo.dk
www.euroaccessibility.org 

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From: w3c-wai-eo-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-eo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Shawn Henry
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:17 PM
To: EOWG (E-mail)
Subject: EOWG, reply on list: Ideas for Involving Users in Evaluate Highlight


EOWG folks,

Early next week we plan to post a WAI home page highlight for the "Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation" document. A start of some ideas for the highlight are at:
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/highlights/planning.html#upcoming

We're looking for some more input into brainstorming and evaluating ideas for the highlight.
	* Do you have other ideas? 
	* Do you really like any of these?

After the brainstorming phase (where any idea is encouraged)[1], remember that there are several issues that we want to be careful about, e.g., :
- this is not just about formal usability testing. it encourages informal participation of users with disabilities throughout development.
- evaluating with users does not get you conformance to guidelines. it does not address the broad range of disabilities that the guidelines do.
- this document introduces the idea and provides some guidance, but it just touches on a large topic

Thanks for sending your ideas to the list in the next couple of days.

Best,
~ Shawn

[1] brainstorming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

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