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author Designing the User Experience for Lotus Notes and Sametime

Mary Beth Raven is the lead product designer for the "Hannover" project, a redesign of Lotus Notes. She joined the Notes team in 2005. Prior to joining the Notes team she was the lead designer for the IBM Workplace Managed Client and Workplace Messaging. Before joining the Workplace team, she was the Lotus Sametime designer for five years. Mary Beth has a Ph.D. in Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.



Friday May 16, 2008

In honor of Cynthia Ice, fix an accessibility bug

Our friend and colleague, Cynthia Ice, passed away earlier this week. She was an accessibility expert and tester-- a tireless advocate for accessibility for Lotus Notes and other products, starting with Notes 5 I believe.

Every blind user of Lotus products, and every salesperson who has to work with accounts that require accessibility, owe Cynthia Ice a great debt. Her work is described a bit in the following
article in USA Today.

Her life had great purpose-- to make software usable for people with disabilities. Please help her to continue to accomplish her purpose by fixing an accessibility bug in her honor.
All you Notes app devs around the world --  if all your databases are 100% accessible, that's great. But chances are, they are not.  So take a few minutes to make sure that all your menu items have mnemonics (underlined access keys), or that a screen reader reads your form in the proper order.

IBM developers -- take a look at your spr queues and see if you have any accessibility ones, and see if you can find some extra time to fix one -- for Cynthia.



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