Re: Usability testing Plone 5.0

On 11 Mar 2014, at 6:25, Jens W. Klein wrote:
> On 2014-03-10 17:03, Anthony Gerrard wrote:
>> Just wondering  if there are any plans to do any usability testing on
>> the very different Plone 5.0 UI.
>
> +100 for usability testing, now after the foundations for the new UI 
> are
> set (which I personally like, but it does not matter here).
>
> Also: What about accessibilty - Plone advertises with 501 compliance?
>
> As its best tests are telling us everythings perfect, otherwise we can
> change parts.
>
> I know we technical people dont care a lot about this field, but Plone
> always was known for its good UX and should keep that. Its part of the
> Plone culture. Leaded by Alex Limi the Plone Community did a good job
> here in past, i.e. there have been also interactive sessions with 
> blind
> people at sprints and so on. At the moment theres not that much UI/UX
> lead anymore as far as I can see and sprint are getting more 
> technical.

Paul Roeland is leading an accessibility team. They've already been 
pushing significant markup changes, adding ARIA roles, and generally 
making sure Plone 5 is fully WCAG2 compliant. Our blind tester, 
Michelle, is still at Penn State and I'm sure we could talk her into 
finding where things break in Plone 5. Asko's added automated testing to 
catch the basic issues if they creep in. We have a UI team that's been 
steering design choices. We have several groups who have volunteered as 
focus groups.

Plone hasn't given up on any of this. We may no longer have that one 
person calling the shots when it comes to the UI, but we have a *lot* 
more people paying attention to making sure it's right.

We *do* need to do a better job of communicating that with the 
community, and that's something I'm trying to push forward.

Eric

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