Results from Round 1 UI Options user testing

[Alison Benjamin]

Hi,

Two Zoom Text screen magnifier users came to the ATRC to play with UI
Options today.

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/User+Interface+Options+-+Round+1+protocol

Here is a summary of the results:

* "Edit Appearance" button is hard to for users to locate the first
time & re-locate after closing the UI Options dialog
* Once the UI Options dialog is opened, users have an easy time making
and previewing their changes, ex: changing font style, size.
* It wasn't always clear what it meant to choose or tweak a particular
UI Option. For example, it could be clearer what it means to choose
"Yes" or "No" to Background images.
* At some points both users tried to use browser features to make
changes to the UI of the Webpage.
* Follow-up work needs to be done to determine why (1) UI Options page
wouldn't load correctly (no text appears) in IE 8 with Zoom Text
running, and (2) why using FF3 it stopped working during tasks 5 & 6
with User 1 (see Interaction Notes). Both problems could have been due
to the computer we were using for testing, the AT, or the browser.

I am also looking for feedback on the questions I was using for
task-based testing:
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/User+Interface+Options+-+Round+1+protocol

Thanks,
Alison