[CAIA A11y Research]: Ask VA VA.gov Team, Ask VA – Form

[tygindraux]

Who's on your team?

Team name: Ask VA
OCTO-DE product owner: Becky Phung
Product manager: CeeCee O'Connor and Terri Hollar
Designer: Tyler Gindraux, Thomas Michaud
FE engineer: Eddie Otero, Hemesh Patel
Product/team Slack channel: #ask-va-public
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Do you have an accessibility champion?

No, we don't have a champion (yet)

If you have an accessibility champion, what's their name?

No response

Is anyone on your team interested in becoming an accessibility champion?

No response

Calendar checking

• [X] Based on this calendar, confirm we have specialists who can support your study in your desired timeframe
• [X] Confirm you are filing this support ticket at least 1 week in advance of said timeframe, so we have enough heads up to provide support

Have you reviewed the CAIA capacity calendar?

• [X] Yes, we have reviewed the CAIA capacity calendar and can confirm specialists are available to support in our research timeframe

When is the timeframe for your testing?

August 7-14

Supporting artifacts (if any)

• Product outline
• User flows
• Prototype or mockups
• Research plan – We don't have one yet, but our goals will relate to testing with assistive technology in staging
• Research conversation guide – We don't have one yet, but the prototype should provide some context
• Epics/issue that may be helpful – Previous ticket with y'all! ...

Next steps

• [X] Post a link to this ticket in the accessibility-help Slack channel and tag Naomi @Naomi Eke
• [X] Your team's researchers and observers read through platform guidance on research with assistive technology users
• [x] Review our assistive technology pilot guide and request a pilot, if desired
• [ ] CAIA Specialists are assigned to your research, be sure to add the respective a11y specialist(s) to your session invites (include the Zoom or Teams link).
• [ ] CAIA Specialists review your conversation guide and research plan
• [ ] Provide specialists your participant details like skill level, operating system, assistive tech used, browser
• [ ] CAIA specialists will provide you an optional feedback form to let us know how we can support y'all better into the future.
• [ ] CAIA Specialists create a research notes template
• [ ] CAIA Post research, specialists will add accessibility findings to your research folder

[tygindraux]

I posted this on #accessibility-help per guidance in the ticket: Slack post.

[tygindraux]

We'd like to do a pilot, please 💚 We're aiming for piloting around August 1. We should have a research plan and conversation guide by July 23.