Re: Usability testing Plone 5.0

On 2014-03-11 12:08, Eric Steele wrote:
> 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.

Awesome! We really need to communicate this better. Besides the usal 
business its quite difficult to catch up with all the technical /and/ 
organisational developments in Plone. The whole grew a lot, grew up, got 
mature and this is fine! Shout it out. This is a great value Plone has.

regards Jens
-- 
Klein & Partner KG, member of BlueDynamics Alliance


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