Results of Easy YouTube user testing with people with learning disabilities
Accessibility User Testing goddess Antonia Hyde from United Response just posted the results of user testing the Easy YouTube player with people with learning disabilities on her blog
Her findings so far:
Things people liked
- The control buttons. They were the right size and were easy to understand
- Being able to change the video size
- The volume indicator
- The search facility
- Being able to put the address in the address bar and see the video they wanted, even if they needed help to do it
Things people wanted to be different
- Less information on the player (too many words)
- Things to be organised a bit differently
- The address facility to be at the bottom of the player, not at the top. (The screen was the main concern.)
Things people would like but are not there
- A state change to show that you are about to select a button or a video size
- Visual clues for the different video size options
- Pictures for the search results (Or if not then, for it to be clearer that you can select these options)
- A timecode to tell you how long the video is
- Something to tell you how many videos you will get from the search facility
None of these issues are really hard to put in and I will do so soon.
Check out the post on Antonia’s blog and comment there (or here, I will forward 
)
Tags: accessibility, easyyoutube, hack, learningdisabilities, testing
July 7th, 2008 at 4:38 am
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:03 am
There are only 67 visible words on the Easy YouTube page. Every test of every Web site with LD users always demands fewer words. There are already barely any words on the page. I don’t think we need to reduce the Web to the ethos of Fahrenheit 451 in the ostensible name of accessibility. A Web without words is a slideshow.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:30 am
@ Joe
Hello. Just to clarify the note about word count from the people I tested with.
It’s quite possible that there was a perception of too many words owing to two areas of instruction next to each other at the top of the player. This area was perceived as too much information (or too many words.) So it’s both a question of the amount of words and the layout of the original player.
Just moving one of the instructions will, I hope, make this less confusing for some people.
As it’s intended as an alternative player, this will hopefully enable people to do what they want more quickly, which is to watch videos they can control more easily.