[Accessibility-testing] August 13 meeting notes

Jason McIntosh jmac at jmac.org
Mon Aug 27 15:09:27 EDT 2018


Howdy folks,

Reminder that our regular meeting is tonight at 6 PM Eastern, via Skype. Attendance not mandatory but encouraged, as usual. Discussion topics are as follows!

> On Aug 21, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Jason McIntosh <jmac at jmac.org> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> Just some reminders about stuff we should have ready for next Monday, August 27:
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> • Folks should have played the final draft of Zarf’s Inform game and reviewed his notes
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> • Same for Claire’s Twine game, once the next draft becomes available
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> …Well, I think that’s it, actually, modulo any further questions I may dredge up about the test matrix. Other than all that, see you next week...
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>> On Aug 16, 2018, at 5:59 PM, Jason McIntosh <jmac at jmac.org> wrote:
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>> Present: Austin, Claire, Deborah, Jmac, Mark, Zack, Zarf
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>> • We discussed the tester-notes document that Zarf made for “A Night Beneath the Opera”. Generally agreement that they’re on-point, and that they’d be improved further by breaking it into two documents: one for the tester to read in full before play, and another that is just a walkthrough.
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>> I have added a copy of the notes to our resource webpage (http://jmac.org/misc/a11y-resources.html).
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>> We should all give “Opera” one last play-through over the coming week, posting any critique to the list.
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>> • Claire plans to complete the “Twine of Access” draft presently.
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>> • We discussed the test-results mockup I shared last week (). We agreed (I report with all due humility) that it looks like a good presentation device for the “nitty-gritty” part of the report, but full report should lead in with a friendly prose summary that will put all this data into context.
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>> Claire pointed out a tool for Chrome called “Lighthouse” that helps one choose nicely contrasting colors for stuff like this.
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>> Mark suggests representing the tests-passed/total-test-count numbers as nice, normalized percentages rather than ratios.
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>> And that’s that!
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>> According to our schedule, our next meeting date, and group deadline, is this: (Aug 27) Complete internal testing and critique of the two games. Revise the testing matrix based on prior discussion, as well as its internal application to the test games.
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