http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/2009/
Andrew: Take a look at the drafted potential additional older people scenarios.
William: These have the characteristics of pointing out what is wrong and what has been corrected ie here's what was wrong and here's what been fixed. Is this true for all the scenarios
Andrew: Some scenarios are but not all of them
William: Prefers the style of
problem and solution.
... It's good enough to force all the others to become more
like this style
Jack: [In reference to the retiree managing funds scenario]
...
Can we relate this to the
business case to provide motivation without being to
forceful
Andrew: Need to put all the older people together
William: Can we put a note as to say why this is a business case
[back to additional scenarios]
Alan: Can we highlight what's
being talked about in each part
... using links to other sections
<scribe> ACTION: Andrew will add links to later sections [as planned] and send it around the group next week [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/09/23-waiage-minutes.html#action01]
Andrew: Next scenario is Grandmother with age-related impairments
Pierre: For the grandmother scenario you put the age of 85 but the previous scenario just says he is a senior
Andrew: Senior is supposed to relate to position in company and his age is in the last paragraph. Will make this more clear.
William: in the notes you say facing compulsory retirement which is a big element
Andrew: Most people would say age is not a key aspect but in some scenarios it can be. eg few 85 year olds will use computers in the work place and will have picked it up later. Also most companies have a retirement age, which is why that scenario is 64. Age is used to highlight key points
William: My experience is men suffer from hearing loss more than women. Maybe they're more reluctant to get/wear hearing aids
Andrew: Not noticed any gender issue related to hearing loss in the literature
Darren: Good that social networking is mentioned
Andrew: Flickr and seeing what the family is doing is important to older users
William: Found out recently his daughters read his blog frequently
Alan: Grandmother with age-related impairments scenario does not match his expeiences
Andrew: Spain does have a lower adoption rate for the Web than many countries
William: Noticed a rapid increase in mobile phone usage in his time in spain.
Andrew: Success can breed success
and all it takes is a few friends who use the Web for other
people to start using it
... Spain's Web usage numbers were much lower than the UK and
USA. Wonder's what the cause can be
Alan: Until recently, more reluctance to move around in Spain - might be a contributing factor
Andrew: Move back to Retiree with
several aging-related conditions, managing personal finances
that Jack talked about previously
... can we make this stronger in addition to Jack's suggestion
of emphasising the buisness case
William: We could emphasise how this could help everybody who uses the business. eg new browser windows would pop open without notifying him annoys everybody, not just the retiree. Not having this would benefit everybody
Andrew: Can also talk about those screen effects that have a pseudo pop-up and grey-out the rest of the screen. Technical term is light boxes.
William: Finds it difficult to
get rid of them
... Similar to what Vista does when it asks you "did you really
want to..."
... difficult to find the "x" to click and close
Andrew: This scenario is succinct but is there anything else we can add that will make it more enticing, realistic, complete?
Jack: Second sentence "some central-field vision loss, hand tremor, and a little short-term memory loss." Comes closer to talking about these from a clinical perspective. The others have a narrative, experience and context.
William: We can do both clinical and add narrative, experience and context.
Andrew: Context is a good way to
go. People may read the scenarios without clicking through to the
implications.
...
University West of England uses these in their
teaching and are looking forward to the updates.
Alan: Link some more. Banking is mentioned at the end, but that should be the starting point
William: Online banking really helps some older people.
Andrew: Can bring in things such as being logged out, which can relate to memory loss. This might make it more engaging
William: Engaging part is captured well in the other two and this can be done here