Preliminary accessibility review of Exhibitions on iPhone

[James William Yoon]

Hi Everett,

Thank you so much for your comments! This is very helpful to both the
designers and developers.

I have a couple of questions about how to address some of the concerns you
enumerated. They're inline with your comments.

6. It is confusing to use a taxonomy (like a tab labeled "Upcoming") to
> categorize the exhibits lower on the page when the exhibits higher on the
> page are not categorized.  What category do the above exhibits fit into?
>

This is something we struggled with a bit. In the end, we concluded that a
user tapping on "Exhibitions" would expect a list of current exhibitions
foremost, and upcoming exhibitions to a much lesser extent. Hence, we listed
out the current exhibitions first, and put upcoming exhibitions in a
cabinet. If this inhibits accessibility, we have two other good options:
have no headers at all, and simply list out the exhibitions all at the same
level, but demarcate the upcoming exhibition dates with "Coming up soon!" or
something to that effect. A second option is to give the header "Current
exhibitions" to the offending section (something we had in an earlier
design, but thought, perhaps incorrectly, it would be redundant)

7. "Catalog 103" is not meaningful to me as a user.
>

The number "103" after "Catalog" refers to the number of objects in the
catalog. We could certainly change "Catalog (103)" to "Catalog (103
objects)", or remove the number entirely (whether or not to have the number
there was another point of discussion the designers had). Thoughts here?

9. No understanding of what "Thermometer" and "Barometer" mean.


"Thermometer" and "Barometer" on this page is the name of the object above
the said text. Any suggestions on how to make this more clear would be
welcome.

Thanks again, Everett! Your observations are very astute and valuable to us.

Cheers,
James
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