Re: our users and primary audience

Hi John



Thanks for offering this! I think we all agree so far that we want to add plain language summaries. 

Lets  add this for the next publication



Just to clarify , the discussion on knowing who are  users are is about what content we make first, what the users are looking for, and how they find it in the documents. It is not about making that content accessible.  Clearly there are people with cognitive disabilities in all the user groups! But we are currently  giving them content as a policy maker, or content creater etc and it will be as accessible as we can make it. But - We are not at this point focused on giving them content on tips on how to use the web. Their role is not as a user but as policy maker, or content creater.  

Hope that makes sense....




All the best



Lisa Seeman



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---- On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:04:29 +0300 Rochford, John <john.rochford@umassmed.edu> wrote ----




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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 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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