- From: phoenixl <phoenixl@sonic.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:40:37 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, Here are some more questions that have been suggested to be considered at this seminar: 1. Which of the standard usability testing methodologies do visually impaired organizations use for testing usability and accessibility of technology? 2. What modifications to the standard usability testing methodologies had to be made to accomodate visually impaired subjects? 3. Which of the standard usability testing methodologies were found not not to be useful for testing visually impaired subjects and why? 4. How do visually impaired organizations train their staff on using standard usability testing methodologies? 5. When selecting visually impaired subjects for doing usability testing of technology, what criteria do visually impaired organizations use? If one of the goals of the testing is to use "lead users" as the subjects, what additional criteria are used for choosing these lead users? 6. What usability testing do visually impaired organizations do to differentiate when universal design versus parallel design will result in greater usability and accessibility of some technology? 7. Are there any ways where the usability testing of subjects with visual impairments can be structured to keep down testing costs? 8. The ability to scan is highly important for efficiently interacting with visual user interfaces. What usability techniques have been developed to compensate for a visually impaired person's limited ability to scan? 9. What reasearch has been done for optimizing a visually impaired person's use of interfaces where the interface has a significant number of elements? How much slower is it for a visually impaired person to use this type of interface as compared to a non-visually impaired person? 10. What kinds of user interface designs are more likely to have visually impaired users be inaccurate in their interactions? 11. Some user interfaces require the ability for the user to handle asynchronous interactions, e.g. multiple instant messages. What approaches have been developed for visually impaired users to avoid falling behind in these interactions? 12. What are key design requirements for visually impaired users to interact with chat rooms? What are the additional requirements when the chatrooms are more advanced and can display multimedia information while the discussions are simultaneously occuring? 13. What research has been done concerning online testing for courses with regards to what degree the online aspect of the testing negatively affected vidually impaired students' scores? Are there any other questions that people can suggest to be considered at this seminar? Thanks, Scott
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