Improving a Digital Experience
How to do a UX accessibility evaluation Which of the four principles (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust) should the designer focus most effort on? This kind of depends on the context the designer finds themselves in. Do they also build the digital product or do they work with a developer? If the latter, how do the…
Accessibility Design Patterns
Accessibility Guidelines for UX Designers Did any recommendation feel particularly meaningful? The article presents several categories of guidelines and items comprising the categories (items in bold are ones that caught my attention): Content and Structure – meaningful links, colour, consistent navigation, consistent components, use of headings, and multiple ways (to locate pages) Device-independent design –…
Accessibility Guidelines
Understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Make a list of the four principles of WCAG and Define Each in Your Own Terms Web content should be: Perceivable: “Users must be able to perceive it in some way, using one or more of their senses.” The web contains different types of media – text, images, video,…
Evaluating a Digital Experience
How to Manually Check Your Website for Accessibility Why is manual accessibility testing important? The article states that automated accessibility checkers can only correct around 30% of accessibility issues. That number surprised me, but thinking back on my recent experiences that actually makes a lot of sense. For example, the accessibility checked included in Canvas…
Assistive Technology
Assistive technology devices: using the web Do you have any experience with assistive technologies? A few of the alternative input devices covered in this week’s reading materials include: head pointers single switch devices foot switches sip and puff switches, and eye tracking software Of these I have seen head pointers and sip and puff switches…
Defining Accessibility
This week we are taking a look at different models that are used to describe disability: the social model (aka Minority-Group Model of Disability), expert/professional model, tragedy and charity model, and the medical model (aka Biological-Inferiority or Functional-Limitation Model.). In addition to these, the social adaptive model, economic model, customer empowerment model, and the religious…
Understand Accessibility
I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we congratulate them for getting out of bed in the morning. Young, S. (2014) And here begins a seven-week journey through a continuing education course Digital Accessibility. I recently worked on a project which had accessibility requirements,…