RE: Personae

If you use personae for Web stuff (at least), please consider using personae
that represent multiple cultures.  As a Brit, I find the personas described
for MSN at this link leave me feeling quite alienated from the MSN product.
I hope they are not the only personas used for MSN's global rollout.

RI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Joe Clark
> Sent: 17 March 2004 15:40
> To: WAI-GL
> Subject: Personae
> 
> 
> 
> A topic that was discussed at the Toronto f2f and then 
> essentially forgotten was the tried-and-true usability 
> technique of developing personas (or indeed personae) to 
> model various WCAG 2.0 users.
> 
> Perhaps interestingly, MSN has posted details of some of the 
> personae they use.
> 
<http://advertising.msn.com/home/MSNPersonas.asp>

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