Meta Interview Question

How would you build FB for blind people?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Mar 3, 2016

I would start by asking the question "Why would blind people use Facebook?". Are they pursuing the same goals as non-blind people? Is the way they interact with the world different? Are there ways Facebook can help the blind that are irrelevant to seeing? Then go one level lower - how they interact with a computer? How do they consume information? How do they (also can they and would they) produce content? Once I have reasonable answers for above I would have a good idea of what is my interface to Facebook would look like. Then it's one level lower - actual product design. Buttons? Wall? Photos? Videos? Speech recognition? Text-to-speech?

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Anonymous

Mar 2, 2016

Blind people use "readers" to read the screen. First, ideally, I would want to gather more information, preferably from blind facebook users, on their specific needs and interests on facebook, as well as how their readers work (for instance, do their readers work using a mouse, or exclusively with the use of tab keys?). Ultimately, I imagine (depending on feedback) I would organize the layout a bit like a telephone system in which the main menu gave perhaps about five main options, which if selected would allow blind users to hear their newsfeed, their notifications, etc.

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Anonymous

Jan 17, 2017

Clarify > Users > Use Cases > Goals > Prioritize > Solutions > Tradeoffs Focus on improving the current app to support blind people. Understand what they're trying to do, it's no different than a non-blind person. What are the aides they will need to achieve that. What's the most important feature to make that happen and why

Anonymous

Jan 17, 2017

Clarify > Users > Use Cases > Goals > Prioritize > Solutions > Tradeoffs Focus on improving the current app to support blind people. Understand what they're trying to do, it's no different than a non-blind person. What are the aides they will need to achieve that. What's most important feature to make that happen and why

Anonymous

Jan 11, 2016

Who knows

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