a human-centric approach to accessible and inclusive designin reality, accessibility and inclusion...
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A Human-Centric Approach to Accessible
and Inclusive Design
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Inclusive design is creating diverse ways for people to experience a product
Accessible design empowers those with disabilities to understand, perceive, interact, and navigate a product without barriers
Disability is a mismatch interaction between a human and the environment they live in.
Right now, accessibility and inclusive design is an afterthought
In reality, accessibility and inclusion is a sub-component of design and usability
“Inclusive design is good design.”
Why should we care?
$1.2T $8T
A Hidden Market
Creativity and new ideas —
Accessibility is not a barrier to innovation, it lets us explore new ideas.
Protect yourself against laws —
People don’t get sued for not meeting guidelines. They get sued because the site is not usable.
Why is it so hard?
Design Biases Lack of Awareness Habituation
What can we do?
Iterative design process and User Centric Design (UCD)
By involving the user in all steps of the process, we ensure that resources are used towards fixing actual user problems.
The Cycle of Exclusion
Improving your development environment
Empathy stations and assistive technologies
Gain general knowledge about a11y
We need to see our world for what it really is, not what we think it is.
It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees. It’s hard to solve a problem that no one sees.
