Week 1 Progress

Week 1 Goals

1. Finalize and formalize calendar.
2. Reach out to Colorado Center for the Blind about user testing.
3. Create minimal character set for low vision font.

Guiding Feedback

1. Testing against a baseline of readability will be relevant.
2. Early testing with both target audiences individually will be important to identify overlapping parameters.
3. If possible, compartmentalize parameters to avoid overlap. 

Part 1: Finalizing Calendar

I have reviewed and formalized my goals for each development milestone for this semester. They are as follows:

Part 2: Contact Colorado Center for the Blind

I sent an email to the CCB’s generic contact address (ccb@cocenter.org) inquiring about testing for all aspects of my project this semester. Given that it is a holiday weekend and my email was sent on Friday, it is not surprising that I have not yet received a response, but it I haven’t heard back from them in a few days’ time I will follow up.

Part 3: Minimal Character Set for Low Vision

As seen above, I have developed a character set for low vision users. This primarily entailed expanding counters, adding distinguishing marks to similiar characters, and adding bars to simple characters like i and j.

Reflection

My time management this week was fairly solid. I accomplished most of my goals for this week in class on Friday, so I had more time to refine over the weekend. I overestimated the time it would take to create my minimal letter set since it actually only ended up taking a couple hours to complete. As far as accounting for feedback, my primarily consideration for this was in proactively reaching out to my user testing resource to insure adequate time for testing. Nothing was particularly unexpected this week – I have a feeling that will start once I get started on my variable font in this next couple weeks.