Tonight at IA Cocktail hour, Ruth Ellison gave us a great case study about accessibility challenges at Organisation X, a place where she has worked sometime during the last 5 years or so. She talked about the:
- different types of accessibility/disability they had to work with
- differences between designing for a custom-built and COTS product
- challenges working with different roles
- challenges involved when there is no management support or funding for accessibility
It was a really good talk, and I’ll link her slides if she makes them available.
After Ruth finished presenting, we were talking about different types of accessibility and how to work with them. We were talking about dyslexia and Matt pointed out something that I hadn’t thought about - people with dyslexia are often well-served by an audio version, either one you create or an automated version.
But the funniest bit was when he related it to Heroes (something I’m completely addicted to) - he said (something like) “it’s like Matt Parkman - when he reads minds he can understand it, but when he looks at it on paper, he can’t figure out out”. Fancy Matt making a connection between real-world accessibility and a TV series 
*LOL*
Ah, it’s so funny so see those comments in print. I think reading minds was highest on my Facebook Heroes superpowers list, although, Peter Petrelli’s empathy power is my superfav.
M
ps - My last Personas documents were all Heroes characters as well
Hi Matt,
you are a sick puppy, it is now official
Cheers, Andrew
@magia3e I definitely want to bend time and space. But empathy is pretty close, though that could be because peter petrelli is so damn cute!
@Donna - Peter Petrelli is much cuter now that the fringe is gone!
@Magia3e and @Donna Micah’s techno-power thingy is also pretty cool but that could be due to my self confessed geekism.