Notes from Bristol Usability Group talk by Andrew Arch
Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: shares | Tagged: accessibility, aging, usability | 17 Comments »I don’t know whether it’s just coincidence, but since I’ve been working in Bristol, there seem to have been quite a high proportion of geek events happening locally, which as well as being interesting, have given me the opportunity to meet some local folk.
Last night was the turn of the Bristol Usability Group, which I was completely unaware of until Joe and Laura (separately) told me about it via twitter, correctly thinking that it’d be right up my street.
It was.
Last night’s topic was Designing for Old(er) People and Andrew Arch, Web Accessibility and Ageing Specialist for the Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation Project (WAI-AGE) was presenting.
I’ve known Andrew for a few years now, since he worked for Vision Australia doing similar stuff to what we did at RNIB, and hadn’t had a chance to speak to him in a long time, so quite apart from hearing his presentation, it was really good to get a chance to catch up with him. Especially since he was at the Standards.Next event I was at on Saturday but I didn’t get a chance to talk to him then.
I took quite a few notes during Andrew’s talk, because he gave a lot of information that I wasn’t aware of, including lots of useful and interesting statistics, and assuming I can read my handwriting (not an absolute certainty, and the longer I get from having written them, the less likely it gets) I thought I’d transcribe (and share) what I wrote down.
It was an information packed presentation (and discussion afterwards) and I couldn’t physically write any faster and so I know I missed some stuff, so any errors or omissions are mine alone.