stc13: all you need is... accessibility

hello, world

Karen Mardahl – @kmdk – 6 May 2013 – #stc13

“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.”

– Lao Tzu(From a May 2012 AccessU presentation by Molly Holzschlag)

∙Visual∙Hearing∙Motor∙Cognition

Perceivable?

htt

p:/

/ww

w.fl

ickr

.com

/photo

s/km

ard

ahl/7

77

15

72

21

2/

Operable?

mjmonty at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjmonty/5087474397/ CC-BY-2.0

Understandable?

A project of Dana Chisnell and www.civicdesigning.org/fieldguides - work licensed by CC BY-NC-ND3.0

Robust?

Perceivable

Operable

Understandable

Robust

... P. O. U. R.

yeowatzup at http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2052078571/ CC-BY-2.0 “Mangled Starfish, Alona Beach, Panglao Island, Phillipines. The starfish was still alive, after taking this shot we placed it back into the water and it came back to life.”

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) from World Health Organization (WHO) “acknowledges that every human being can experience a decrement in health and thereby experience some degree of

disability. Disability is not something that only happens to a minority of humanity. The ICF thus ‘mainstreams’ the experience of disability and recognises it as

a universal human experience.”http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/

Bug cost chart from http://blogs.windriver.com/vxworks/device-management/

Eddau at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non-wheelchair_Ramp_IMG_0908.JPG public domain

“So long as a web-based system is inaccessible, it suffers from quality problems and we should focus on quality.”

– Karl Groveshttp://www.karlgroves.com/2012/01/27/chasing-the-accessibility-business-case-conclusion/

14

htt

p:/

/ww

w.u

iacc

ess

.com

/Just

Ask

/

“When universal design processes fail to include, consult with, and listen to the people we are actually designing for, we also fail to design effectively.” – Lisa Herrod

http://scenariogirl.com/inclusive-design/the-social-model-of-disability

http://www.stamfordinteractive.com.au/21-5-ways-to-adjust-attitudes-to-accessibility-ux-australia-2012-conference/

Tup Wanders at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scaffolding_Berlin2.jpg CC-BY-2.0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroche/5414095073/

Mick Roche: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroche/5414095073/ - y.accesslab: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaccesslab/5489678611/ - Montage Communications: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montagecomms/3230622625/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/veeliam/5095362394/