Re: UAAG 2.0 Personas

I have no strong preference for or against personas. I believe that the current names are pretty random; I know that I didn't try too hard to be consistent, assuming that they'd all be straightened out in an editorial pass.

Jim, I'm not sure whether Jan was suggesting we move to lettered personas. Certainly the 26 examples Anne gave in her article--which was very well done, by the way--are not intended to cover the full spectrum of disabilities that we might need to include (e.g. users of speech recognition and software magnifiers).

     Greg

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Subject: Re: UAAG 2.0 Personas
From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
To: Richards, Jan <jrichards@ocadu.ca>
Cc: WAI-UA list <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Date: 7/31/2014 4:09 PM
> Jan,
> good point. We started using name, and tried to be inclusive. I can live with lettered personas.
>
> What do others think?
> Please email the list with thoughts, objections by Monday, Aug. 4.
> lets try to reach consensus, by Wed. Aug 6 on the list.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Richards, Jan <jrichards@ocadu.ca <mailto:jrichards@ocadu.ca>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
>
>     I spotted this making the twitter rounds:
>     https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-July-31
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>     I wonder if lettered personas might help with two issues I have with our examples:
>     1. That its unclear whether the names are meant to be personas or are totally random.
>     2. That some of the names are obscure and hard to pronounce, adding a potential barrier to understanding.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jan
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