> Who specifically are you wanting to serve? (Who is the person who will love your site the most?).
These are two completely different demographics (people), actually.
Imagine a 70 year old construction worker who has just lost his vision and has only done very basic things on the computer like emailing grandchildren...
vs.
...someone who lost vision very young and has 15 years of experience with technology in a school situation and is skilled enough to have completed all the entrance work for college and take classes and keep up.
These 2 people need very different things in assistance and tutorials.


People I am hoping to serve are young people who are either in college or wanting to pursue higher education. It would be difficult for me to help the older folk. The person I am targeting would fall in the middle, not the 70 year guy, but not advanced computers either. Someone who is in the middle and knows little but needs that extra skills.



>Great. Having someone sit by your side is a great way to learn. And you don't need a website for this. What you really need is connections with the sources who would recommend you to your students.
Remember a website sits and waits for someone to find it. People don't know your website exists yet. They don't know to search for your website in order to know about you.

That is right, my website would pretty much serve as a supplementary resource after I’ve met the person in person. I thought the website would make me more “legit” for lack of better word.

Where do you think I can get other links, I already have the library I visit. I can distribute brochures advertising the service in libraries.

>I love your mission here. I think it's great! Try to narrow your mission down to something that you can become known for. "Anything accessibility related" isn't even possible. You probably aren't going to include every piece of accessibility equipment with reviews or talk about accessibility coding standards or deal with how a VI senior manager can use accessibility equipment to navigate complex budgeting spreadsheets, right?
Instead, focus on what you really, in your heart, are doing. For example: I help VI adults get up to speed on confidently using the internet and social media with assistive technology, for the very first time.

You are right my mission is vague and broad. The narrower and precise my mission is, the more likely it is marketable and useful. The people are entry level employees who are new at assistive tech or beginners.


>When you say professional, do you mean very formal, like you would use on a job interview for a management job? Or do you mean that you will be factual but in a kind voice and using an everyday vocabulary? Or do you mean that you're talking as an expert and authority and they are the students who should not ask questions, just follow along?
FYI: I'm asking this for a reason. Each one of these would influence a different website name. :-D

That would be the second option; factual and I’ll be using everyday vocabulary. The tone would look like the one written in tutorials.


>AWESOME! I really love this.
What type of careers would you help with? Is it... Someone who is in a loading dock situation and using proprietary software. Do you help with that? An accountant would also have very specific software. Are you helping them use assistive technology no matter what software they're using, or are you specializing in MS Word, for instance, or Chrome browser?
When you say you'd refurbish laptops, it makes me think that these people you help can't afford their own or don't already own computers. Is that correct?

I really appreciate for taking the time to ask me these questions, because these kind of questions would crystalize exactly who is my target student or client. To be honest, I have to think about what class of people I am trying to reach. My initial thinking was to target the beginner, someone who doesn’t know how to use screen readers, knows little bit of accessibility software in the market, doesn’t know about braille note takers, can’t read websites through screen readers.

Yes, people who don’t own their own computers, but own a computer but doesn’t know how to navigate the web through speech.


>I think this last sentence where you talk about it being an extension of the local training is a great reason to come to your site!
This could be the continuing education part of your work or where you provide additional resources to complement what you've taught (like workbooks) or even where they come for help and you could have a community where they ask questions.
Which one seems most interesting to you?

I would lean on the side of the website being a supplementary resource. The reason I want to start this kind of project is that where I live (the states) when I went to college, it seemed as if professors haven’t met any visually impaired person before in their classes. So, my thinking was this website would serve a supplementary resource for student who fined themselves in a similar position.