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Linda van den Brink wrote: > > > > > Is it therefore not sensible to do > > "usability testing" (involving real users) > > on documents? > > > > Do you have an idea of how to go about it? Could the research and testing be > entirely carried out through this list? How would you get your sample of > users? (I could be one, since I haven't read the Schema spec yet and am a > potential user). > > Linda What about this: we can create a group of interested people. We will each provide a short curriculum about our background and state of our experience with the spec. We should probably assume that everybody read through the primer and understands the real basics as how to declare an element. Then we can ask each other questions. Group members would respond to the question: if they know the answer they will just try to find it in the standard (a very common situation, you are almost sure but not entirely so you will look it out) the others will try to find the answer and they will respond with it (and give time it took them to accomplish the task) or they will respond I tried for 5 minutes and no success. And of course everybody can write comments. This system needs: there must be standard writers in the group which would give the right solution there must be reasonable software backend somake the comparisons and contributions easy (therefore there must be a person who would provide software support) Advantages for W3C: usability testings, FAQ's generation, better public relations For W3C outsiders: thorough understanding of the specification, realization that others are as stupid as themselves ;) I guess the system is workable but only if there is a really good background support. Just a devoted mailing list is not good enough. -- ****************************************** <firstName> Miloslav </firstName> <surname> Nic </surname> <mail> nicmila@i... </mail> <support> http://www.zvon.org </support> <zvonMailingList> http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=4 </zvonMailingList>
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