User talk:Volker E. (WMF)/Quest/UI Standardization 2015-16 Q2 Goals

• An equipped environment to do frequent testing with screen reader

Objective	Key Result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Establish a way to test our ideas and implementation	Evaluated and set up testing framework for UI testing Testing results recorded on MediaWiki An equipped environment to do frequent testing with screen readers A set up process to test with color-blind and other vision-deficient users	Design research	EOQ	In progress

Was in discussion:

Objective	Key Result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Establishing process of community involvement	Community involvement from the early stages of our process Our goals and visions are clearly stated and communicated in appropriate venues, including MediaWiki, for interested volunteers to participate Established (some) relationships with community members who also contribute to our code and tasks	Community Liaison	EOQ	In progress
Basic stylesheet of accorded design properties	Basic stylesheet ("base.css") of generally accorded design properties/values to spec implemented in a central repo & accompanying HTML.	Designers on web-facing teams, Community involvement	EOQ	In progress
Enhance accessibility of LSG (Blueprint)/OOjs UI, mediawiki.ui libraries	Color palette for use in basic stylesheet and Living Style Guide (Blueprint), conforming guidelines of WCAG 2.0, at minimum level AA. Enhance OOjs UI & mediawiki.ui library to increase reasonable WAI-ARIA best practices accomplished in design and code.	Editing for OOjs UI changes	EOQ	In progress
User Research and survey on our users' needs and current interface issues	Clarification on what our users want Clarification on what we should build that our users would use A collection of user feedback that helps us prioritize to solve the most pressing interface issues	Partially Design Research team, Edward Galvez (Survey specialist) from Learning & Evaluation team	EOQ	In progress