Multi-personal interview

Name: Anne RENOD – Thierry SABATIER – Jean-Pierre GAILLOT DREVON

Age: 60 – 55 - 62

Occupation: Chairman of the association FAF APRIDEV

Qualitative interview guide

Introduction Introduce yourself, briefly explain the purpose of the test and allow the participant(s) to comment or ask questions.

<aside> 💡 The interviewees would be interested in giving a speech to emlyon's student about accessibility and more specifically visual disability.

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General information related to the topic Query the tester with general questions. Talk about his habits.

<aside> ❓ What's the first thing you do in the morning ? (Some people put their glasses on and so on...)

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<aside> ✅ Our first reflex is to put (sun)glasses on → It prevents from several harm for our eyes : Light extreme sensitiveness (photophobia), external shocks and injuries (hitting random objects).

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<aside> ❓ What's the biggest hustle of your day ?

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<aside> ✅ There are three main obstacles in our daily-life; Mobility, Information accessibility, and the "Social" aspect.

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• Mobility : First it's hard to be brave enough to dare going outside (fear, judgement, problem regarding others). However, when you reached this step, you start realizing that people are friendly and caring. Moreover, they are more "informed" about our condition and their approach is more adapted. Still, the outside can be complicated to nagivate in knowing that you have obtstacles and day to day changes in the environment.
• Information accessibility : The worst part is non digitalized content. When receiving paper format letter for instance, it's easy for us to miss the point of a document and thus do things wrong. For instance, administrative paper work, operating instructions for food or drugs are complicated daily tasks. Incredible statistics (From Thierry), 90% of the information used in a day are visual "we feel neglected concerning this dimension".
• Social aspect: As mentioned before, getting outside and meeting others is complicated. We have to overcome many prejudices and unjustified fears (from both sides). However, nowadays the "discomfort" regarding our disability is less strong than before (People are more educated about it). Concerning the social aspect, the environment plays a tremendous role, for instance place where people are in a rush (a train station) or on the opposite places where you can't find anyone are intimidating.

<aside> ❓ How do you orient yourself and interact with your environment ?

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<aside> ✅ There are several ways for us to get from point A to point B, they can be technological, human (external) or emerges from ourselves :

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• Our "hacks" : We can memorize a given path and then be able to travel in full autonomy on this path. Moreover, we use "compensation startegy" in order to aleviate the loss of sight, for instance we use our hearing capabilities to follow people in a train station (steps sounds and so on), we can analyze the intensity of the wind and cars when approaching road crossing.