Citizen Science : User Testing & Accessibility

This section is about user testing outside of the college and different types of users to be covered. Here is my testers and the results. 

Color-Blind: This wasn't a person test, but to load images from the application into a website that mimics color blindness. I did the version of green color blindness and red colorblind. With the colors I picked the red was the worse of the two and actually not bad enough to make changes in the color.

Normal log on screen

Red Color Blind

Catalog Screen

Red Color Blind

Red Color blind shaded

Original Splash Screen

Visually Impaired: Test for the visually impaired in one of the following ways:

• I went with someone who has far-sided vision (can't see close up) to test the app without their glasses. My sister normally wears glasses most of the time and has trouble seeing them without them. She had questions about the location on the map that I plan to resolve in my fixes. The other findings was some way of sorting out the trash found. 
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Motor Impaired:  Test for the motor impaired in one of the following ways:

• The requirements for this is the tester may ONLY use the thumb on their non-dominant hand to interact with your app.

• Pictured is my niece using the app, she is a left hand person normally.  Her findings were the buttons were difficult to push because I was not following the 44 pixel requirement for button sizes. Otherwise found it interesting and had very little trouble getting around the application.

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Older Generation: Test someone who is over the age of 55.

This test was done by my mother in her Seventies, the feed back I go was trying to understand why someone would want to collect trash for free. Had a lot of questions of what kind of company what Citizen Science was. Most of the questions about the application was off topic and more about college based questions, had to keep refocusing her on to the project at hand. Not having a lot of experience with phone apps there was a lot of basic questions of information that normal users do not have.

 Anyone: Conduct your test on anyone.

The final tester was my brother in law, first off he didn't care for the color of the application but more of a personal choice than an aesthetics one. Liked that it only had a few steps to get everything done.  No real technical issues but also complained about the button size that I will address in the final version.