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Using Personas<\/h1>\r\nDesigners use personas to\u00a0represent the different types of people who may be accessing a website or product. In this toolkit, we have used personas to help you keep in mind the various types students and their various abilities\u00a0while you're developing content. We've also used these personas to\u00a0introduce you to different types of hardware and software that students typically use.\r\n\r\nWe've adapted the personas from\u00a0Sarah Horton and Whitney Queensbury's book A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experience<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to be more specific to postsecondary students with print disabilities in British Columbia (based on\u00a0data from CAPER-BC<\/a>\u00a0and the students who attended our focus group).\r\n\r\nThese are some of the students who will be reading the open textbooks that you write.\r\n
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<\/a>Mark<\/h3>\r\n\"Profile<\/a>\r\n\r\nMark is 17 years old. He is a future heavy-duty mechanic with a learning disability that was diagnosed in Grade 8. Mark absorbs information best by hearing it and enjoys making and fixing stuff with his hands. He's in his first semester of college taking trades courses and loving it. Mark can't wait to complete the foundation courses and move into his first apprenticeship placement. He lives at home with his family who shares one computer.\r\n\r\nAbility<\/strong>: Difficulty absorbing a lot of information when reading it\r\n\r\nAptitude<\/strong>:\u00a0Basic technology user\r\n\r\nAttitude<\/strong>:\u00a0Prefers to do things himself, but can get easily frustrated or impatient, especially with technology\r\n\r\nAssistive technology<\/strong>: mp3 player\r\n\r\nFormat\u00a0preference<\/strong>:\u00a0mp3 so that he can and listen on the go\r\n\r\nListen to an mp3 recording of a synthetic voice<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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<\/a>Jacob<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_117\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"409\"]\"Image<\/a> Image from Horton, Sarah; Quesenbery, Whitney. 2014. A Web for Everyone<\/em>. New York: Rosenfeld Media. rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/a-web-for-everyone\/[\/caption]\r\n\r\nJacob is a fourth-year business administration student who is blind and a bit of a geek.\u00a0Jacob is 28 years old and can't wait to get his last few classes out of the way so he can start his career. He shares an apartment with his girlfriend.\r\n\r\nAbility<\/strong>:\u00a0Blind since birth\r\n\r\nAptitude<\/strong>:\u00a0Skilled technology user\r\n\r\nAttitude<\/strong>:\u00a0Digital native, early adopter, persists until he gets it\r\n\r\nAssistive technology<\/strong>:\r\n