Re: Initial Pass at a Survey

Hello Berhanu,

Its good to hear from you and thank you for the response.  I apologize that
I did not explain the status of the survey clearly.  It is only a draft
document at this time and is not complete.  The final version will have
more questions so that it covers most of the topics from the Ethiopic
Layout Requirements web page.  The audience for the survey will primarily
be publishing houses in Addis Ababa, also professionals engaged in
commercial publishing.

That is what I've had in mind.  However, it is also good for people on this
mail list to take the survey.  It is very crucial that a survey be tested.
We need to test it ourselves, then find a survey candidate from the
publishing industry to test the final draft as well.  So now you have
become the first tester :-)

Let me ask then:

* Were the questions clear and easy to understand?
* Which questions were confusing?
* Were the choices offered sufficient?
* Would the survey benefit from an Amharic translation?
* What other changes could be made to help a surveyed person respond?


I see from your comment to question 3.2 that a new survey question could be
created to ask "What are the appropriate uses for the Ethiopic numerals?"

Thank you for taking the time to respond to the survey, my apologies again
for not being clear about the document status.

best wishes,

-Daniel


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:14 AM Berhanu Beyene <berhanebeyene@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings, Daniel and Martin!
>
> I have gone through the survey questions. Please find attached.
>
> Best regards
>
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> 2016-05-09 16:27 GMT+03:00 Daniel Yacob <yacob@geez.org>:
>
>> Thank you for the feedback Martin. I'll make a revision with your
>> suggestions before extending the survey further.
>>
>> -Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:10 AM Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>> On 2016/05/03 11:46, Daniel Yacob wrote:
>>> > Hello Everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I made an attempt to convert some sample portions of the developing
>>> ELREQ
>>> > into a survey format.  To be clear, it is not a full survey document, I
>>> > have just selected a few sections and tried rephrasing them in survey
>>> form
>>> > to see how it would look and discover any issues that might emerge.  My
>>> > main goal has been to keep it very simple and clear to understand.  A
>>> few
>>> > changes to enhance clarity will work their way back into the spec
>>> > document.  The results can be downloaded here:
>>> >
>>> >   https://github.com/w3c/elreq/tree/gh-pages/survey
>>> >
>>> > Feel free to add to it, I will as I have time. A final version will
>>> need
>>> > translation.
>>>
>>> I have looked over the survey. There were some very interesting
>>> phenomena that were new to me.
>>>
>>> My general suggestion would be to change the binary choices to more open
>>> choices with write-ins. Often, there is a question "is it A or B", and
>>> the answer might be "mostly A for newspapers, but often B for books" or
>>> some such.
>>>
>>> Regards,   Martin.
>>>
>>
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