Requirement Questions

How will personalized accessibility be calculated? What questions should be asked on the user profile and how should their answers affect the personalized accessibility calculations?

A simple answer to this would be that we ask exactly the same questions that are asked on the location checklist and we only use 'yes' answers to affect the personalized accessibility results. For example, if a user needs a ramp and nothing else from the checklist the 'Entrance' category is the only category to show in the location's profile and it is either 100%(has a ramp) or 0% accessible(no ramp). The good lighting question would have no affect on the result.

Another option would be to focus more on disabilities and the devices the user depends on. For example, "Do you use a wheelchair?" That question would imply a need for "yes" or "N/A" to any ramp or wheelchair-related questions. The following questions could also help us get the information we need about the user with fewer questions:

• "Does large print help?" (2 associated checklist questions)
• "Does braille help?" (2 associated checklist questions)
• "Are you legally blind?" (4+ associated checklist questions and could eliminate the need for the braille question above)
• "Are you hard of hearing or deaf?" (2+ associated checklist questions like "Closed captioning", "Assisted Listening" )

I suggest we have a question asking if they ever use a screen reader for websites because this question could help us switch to more screen reader-friendly elements in our web application. For example, a Google map won't be screen reader friendly but a list of location names and addresses might be.