A rough timeline

James Gee
James Gee
Feb 23, 2017 · 2 min read

So I met my dissertation supervisor for the first time last week, we had a great chat and I now feel a lot clearer on my general direction and also what I’m going to deliver and how I’m going to deliver it.

Due to the nature of the project I was advised it’s best to break it down into small components that can be completed on a weekly basis. This is likely to evolve over time and I will be using Trello to track what I’ve done and what I’m doing (Kind of in a Kanban way). Here is a link to my dissertation Trello board.

In summary..

February

  • Identify ways of working
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Go out to charities and users and find the most common issues they face
  • Identify the most common web ‘components’ (e.g. dialog)
  • Understand how accessibility issues can be identified (in the IDE, in the browser?)
  • Gather tools for testing hypothesis’

March

  • Use tools to assess common web ‘components’ on a range of sites
  • Build these components as small web pages using common web frameworks.
  • Produce more accessible friendly versions of all components
  • Record & document the difference between how tools behave against these components
  • Document how to’s and lessons learned
  • Build education pages (Maybe a gitbook or something)

April

  • Go back to users and ask for them to test the difference
  • Produce case studies of them
  • Design system for identifying issues in code
  • Build a framework to enable addition of rules quickly
  • Build a small set of rules

May

  • Prepare for submission

These are just headlines. Throughout I hope to write this blog and my report.