Re: our users and primary audience

Hi Lisa and All,


I continue my advocacy to regularly help users understand what we are doing for them. I suggest an easy way is to include plain-language summaries at the tops of our documents. I am willing to do all of that work myself if needed.


John


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UMass Medical School/E.K. Shriver Center
Director, INDEX Program
Instructor, Family Medicine & Community Health
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From: lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 2:37:09 PM
To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf
Subject: our users and primary audience


We had an important discussion in last weeks call on who is our primary audience. I just want to make sure that anyone who was not on the call has a chance to comment.

We had our main audience as

  *   internal W3C groups (Such as APA and WCAG - this is our mandate as a task force)
  *   content creators  (management & content creators, designers etc)
  *   Slightly less important was external policy makers who are not part of the W3C

The following groups are important but not our primary focus right now


  *   Users  (Clearly the user is important, but we are not making documents designed primarily for them right now, for example, we are not making content on coping skills or technologies you can use. We might later but not now.)
  *   Testers and elevators (This group is a key user for WCAG - but we are less focused on making content for their needs right now.)
  *   Researchers (we have a lot of good content for them and identify lots of issues. But meeting their needs is not our main focus)

All the best

Lisa Seeman

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