Antonia Hyde explained to the audience the impact of web design on people with learning disabilities. There is not enough data out there on user testing covering learning disabilities - this was a very welcome exception. Antonia also pointed out the necessity of collaboration as the first and foremost mean of building systems that work, going into detail about our collaboration on building easy youtube.
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 
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