Fluid's helping with Universal Subtitles!

[James W. Yoon]

Works for us. Talk to you next week!

Best,
James

On 2012-02-08, at 9:49 AM, Dean Jansen wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> That's awesome news... really looking forward to hearing how things went!
> 
> Shall we plan to chat at 11am ET on Wed the 15th?
> 
> Best,
> Dean
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, James W. Yoon <jyoon at ocadu.ca> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
> 
> We're just about done our overall review. We've done both an accessibility walkthrough and user testing with about a dozen users in two different countries (Canada and Spain), including some with motor challenges, vision impairment, or blindness.
> 
> Would you have time early next week to chat about the results? Monday (February 13), Tuesday (February 14), or Wednesday (February 15) before noon Eastern would work for Michelle, Tona, and me.
> 
> Best,
> James
> 
> On 2012-01-17, at 9:14 PM, Dean Jansen wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michelle,
>> 
>> Very exciting! 
>> 
>> And yes, a broader discussion with some of our product team, once the review is complete, sounds great.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Dean
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, D'Souza, Michelle <mdsouza at ocadu.ca> wrote:
>> Hi Dean,
>> 
>> I'm also excited about this partnership - I've wanted to work on this since Nicholas came by and chatted with us last year. :)
>> 
>> We've started with some background work like getting familiar with what Universal Subtitles is and how the current interactions work. James and Tona have done some user testing and are working on consolidating their notes and findings. It should be interesting to go through what they've found. I expect to do an accessibility review by the end of the week which will hopefully lead to some simple fixes and improvements. 
>> 
>> Once we've gathered our findings it would be really great to meet with the larger team to talk it all through. 
>> 
>> Michelle
>> 
>>  
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Michelle D'Souza
>> Senior Inclusive Developer
>> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011-12-22, at 4:59 PM, Dean Jansen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Colin, 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for helping to organize this project; I'm really excited that our orgs will be working together!
>>> 
>>> Maybe in January, when things kick off, we can do an introductory thread to Craig (product director), Arthur (lead dev), and the rest of the team. Just let me know when you guys would like to do that. In the mean time, enjoy the holidays and have a great new year.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Dean
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Clark, Colin <cclark at ocadu.ca> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>> 
>>> I had a nice chat this afternoon with Dean Jansen from the Participatory Culture Foundation about how Fluid can help out with the accessibility of Universal Subtitles (http://www.universalsubtitles.org/). As part of our Floe roadmap, we're keen to be both users of and contributors to Universal Subtitles, so this seems like a great way to engage with them.
>>> 
>>> To start, James and Tona have been working on some usability testing ideas for Universal Subtitles in our wiki:
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Universal+Subtitles+user+testing+protocol
>>> 
>>> In the new year, we're planning to recruit some users (including those with disabilities) to try out Universal Subtitles and share their experiences. This will give us a "big picture" view of how we can help contribute to its usability and accessibility. On the other side, I've volunteered Michelle (eek!) to help coordinate some technical-level accessibility UX Walkthroughs of Universal Subtitles, testing both in a keyboard-only situation as well as with some assistive technologies. From there, we'll work closely with the Universal Subtitles community to triage the issues and submit some patches to help make improvements.
>>> 
>>> In terms of timelines, we're hoping to get started with some of the testing during the second week in January, once we've settled in after the holiday break. PCF has offered to have a developer help us with triaging and bug fixing towards the end of January.
>>> 
>>> If anyone is interested in lending a hand by helping with accessibility testing or participating in James and Tona's user testing, please don't hesitate to get involved--we'd love to have you!
>>> 
>>> Have a great holiday,
>>> 
>>> Colin
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> Colin Clark
>>> Lead Software Architect,
>>> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
>>> http://inclusivedesign.ca
>>> 
>>> 
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