[Accessibility-testing] "Gut check"

[Zachary Kline]

I can sympathize with Andrew and his concerns, although it is tempting to cut down farther, I can definitely take the point that doing so too much is not a good thing. I like your idea of perhaps a smaller program, with the option to add more in future.

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On Sep 8, 2018, at 6:16 PM, Jason McIntosh <jmac at jmac.org> wrote:

>> On Sep 7, 2018, at 8:49 PM, Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath at eblong.com> wrote:
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>> My opinion is that we should do a testathon. We've already scaled down a lot, and I don't see a lot of room for reduction if we're going to produce a result that anybody should pay attention to.
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> Noted.
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> I will further note, for the sake of full disclosure, that I brought this question to the board during our most recent regular meeting this past Thursday. The group response was that, yes, let’s please perform a testathon as originally planned. (And Zarf said what he just said here. :) )
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> Board member Judith Pintar said something I really liked: if we are feeling pinched for time or resources, we can intentionally keep the scope of the tester recruitment modest — larger than just us, but smaller than a grand, take-all-comers public drive — and call it a pilot program.
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> While I’m a big fan of cutting stuff away until you have a deliverable, I know that one can overdo it, per Zarf’s concern. So the path I think we’re currently headed down involves planning to make those testing packets and get us some testers and Do The Thing before the year’s up. Our progress since spring has been steady, and I dare say can do it if we reach for it. The next steps would involve making some actual-factual packages for testers to use, while at the same time start talking about recruitment — which I’ll leave for another email thread.
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> Mine ears remain open for other thoughts on this matter, and naturally we’ll talk about it more on Monday as well.
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