[Lexie] [ED-low] Lexie's story feels less personable than Elias

[MicheleAWilliams-A11y]

I don't recall all there was from the prior story before this became Lexie, but in reading about Elias, Lexie feels like it's missing a personable touch. The main body text only mentions online shopping and fantasy football (which really don't seem to go together but we'll say we're being progressive). However, the other barrier examples listed below her story (as well as in the video) talk about work charts and news articles, as if there's more to Lexie than the 2 examples. Also, as mentioned in #272, it's not clear if Lexie still works or not.

With that, I'm wondering if even just a few tweaks would add more narrative info to Lexie. Here's some ideas (along with the pronoun correction mentioned in #270):

Lexie is a recent retiree who has been enjoying her new leisure time. Lexie was born with deuteranopia and protanopia (often called “color blindness”). This means she has difficulty distinguishing among items that are red, green, orange, and brown, all of which appear to her as kind of murky brown.

Lexie discovered that shopping for clothes online is actually an advantage over going to physical stores. In addition to [strike "just"] showing pictures of items in the various colors offered, her favorite sites include color labels making coordinating what goes together much easier. Sometimes when checking out though, the required fields and error messages are notated with a red outline and Lexie has to pay special attention to identify them. She noticed lately, however, that a lot of sites are getting better about using a secondary notation like an asterisk for required fields and bold text or an arrow pointing to errors. This really helps a lot.

Much to people's surprise, Lexie is also a big football fan and has been playing fantasy football with family and former workmates for years. Sometimes there can be problems with the way these sites use color to differentiate between teams, player positions, and whether or not players are selected for her team. As a result, she tends to prefer certain Fantasy Football apps that don’t use color as the only way to indicate information that is important to playing. This means she has to try and convince friends to play using the same app.

[NEW] Along with her fun, Lexie still stays connected to the latest news and happenings. This is made easier when charts and graphs related to the articles show data with other visual techniques than just color. For instance, if a pie chart also has patterns and text labels she can more easily and quickly read the information without getting frustrated or being left out completely.

[JayneSchurick]

Good additions.

[JayneSchurick]

@MicheleAWilliams-A11y PLEASE APPROVE (addressesissues 270, 272, and 274)

Intro: Lexie is an older adult who loves online shopping and fantasy football. Lexie cannot see all colors equally well. Websites and apps that rely on colors alone present barriers for Lexie. Using color alone to highlight text and to indicate areas in a chart also present barriers for Lexie but fortunately her work colleagues have learned ways for using other visual markers in addition to color.

About Lexie: Lexie was born with deuteranopia and protanopia (often called "color blindness") and has difficulty distinguishing among items that are red, green, orange, and brown, all of which appear to her as kind of murky brown.

Lexie discovered that shopping for clothes online is actually an advantage over going to physical stores. In addition to just showing pictures of items in the various colors offered, her favorite sites include color labels, making coordinating what goes together much easier. Sometimes when checking out though, the required fields and error messages are notated with a red outline and Lexie has to pay special attention to identify them. She noticed lately, however, that a lot of sites are getting better about using a secondary notation like an asterisk for required fields and bold text or an arrow pointing to errors. This really helps a lot.

Much to people's surprise, Lexie is also a big football fan and has been playing fantasy football with family and workmates for years. Sometimes there can be problems with the way these sites use color to differentiate between teams, player positions, and whether or not players are selected for her team. As a result, she tends to prefer certain fantasy football apps that don't use color as the only way to indicate information that is important to playing. This means she has to try and convince friends to play using the same app.

Along with her fun, Lexie still stays connected to the latest news and happenings. This is made easier when charts and graphs related to the articles show data with other visual techniques than just color. For instance, if a pie chart also has patterns and text labels she can more easily and quickly read the information without getting frustrated or being left out completely.

[JayneSchurick]

Accepted per Michele.