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Will older equipment remain compatible, and within what limits ?

Recommendation 

user experience

A People

A Planet

B Prosperity

Difficulty

**

Priority

Medium

Récurrence

OnUpdate

Tests

Is there a degraded mode for other browsers?

Precisions

The sector of activity and the profile of the users usually make it possible to qualify the equipment fleet that will be used for the service. The materials are determined by their technical capacities (computing power, memory, network capacity, sensors, size and screen quality) but also by the operating systems they can accommodate. Each constraint that the service imposes reduces the number of stations that will be able to use it and therefore excludes audiences. The implementation of alternative solutions makes it possible to maintain efficient operation on old devices which retain good usability and not to exclude users

Use Case

Impact assessment defines risk of equipement obsolescence

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Formalized = 100 ; Planned = 75 ; Identified = 50 ; Ignored = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Utilisation

3 other criteria related to the recommendation: Reduce the effects of obsolescence

Recommendation Essential

user experience

Is the backward compatibility range defined ?

Advice

Life cycle

Are each of these life cycle phases identified with specific actions ?

Advice

user experience

Is a light version of the service for older equipment or limited network access conditions available ?