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Accessibility
Designing so people with disabilities can perceive, understand and use the experience.
What is Accessibility?
Designing so people with disabilities can perceive, understand and use the experience.
What you learn
Give more than one way to perceive and operate everything.
When it helps
an experience works only for people who see, hear, move or think in one way.
Use it at work
- Offer more than one way to perceive everything: sight, sound or touch.
- Offer more than one way to operate everything.
- Test with only a keyboard, with zoom and with a screen reader.
- Include disabled people in research and testing.
Your output
Do one task in your product without a mouse, then again with the screen zoomed to 200%. Note where you get stuck.
Watch for
Designing for one way of seeing, hearing and moving: your own.
Related practices
- Inclusive Participation
- Quality Review
- Interaction Design
- Keyboard Navigation
- Focus Management
- Semantic Structure
- Accessible Naming
- Screen Reader Evaluation
- Cognitive Accessibility
Sources
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