Designing Experiences for Everyone

Hello.Miriam Tracey

Designing experiences for all.

People.

Accessible design is design in which the needs of people

with disabilities are specifically considered.

Web accessibility enables people with disabilities, to perceive,

understand, navigate, interact with, and contribute to the web.

Jesse Hauler, Accessibility Specialist at Salesforce

Video “I got an iPhone and it instantly

changed my universe.” -Austin Seraphin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQOZRIA-nA

Stats

Statistics Canada :

3.8 million Canadians or nearly 14% of the adult population, live with a disability.

IBM Research:

1 billion people or 15% of the world’s population, live with a disability.

Video “YouTubers, you really need to start captioning your videos.”

-Rikki Poynter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmTMiWGiP6Y

Pew Research Centre:

Since 2011 roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers have turned 65 every day.

This will continue yet every day for the next 13 years.

15%

Have you ever ?…

YES NO

Watched a video on mute to avoid disturbing other people?

Lost your voice from a bad cold?

Turned down the brightness on your phone?

Stayed up too late and had trouble focusing the next day?

Tried to look at a site or an app while crossing a street?

Been in a noisy place and struggled to hear the

conversation you were having?

Had to use your non-dominant hand because of an injury or because you were holding a

bunch of things?

Lost or forgotten your glasses, or even just your sunglasses

when you needed them?

Many of us are only temporarily able-bodied.

Robin Christopherson, Accessibility Advocate

At any given moment, we could be juggling multiple tasks that take an eye or an ear or a finger away. We could be exhausted or sick or stressed. Our need for accessibility might last a minute, an hour, a day, or the rest of our lives.

Anne Gibson

All of us.

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So where do we start?

Add alt text to describe your images

Create closed captions for videos

Distinguish between colours

Carefully identify your links

The problem

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The problem What to do

Some more resources to get you started:

accessibilitystart.com

We don't know where the next Stephen Hawking is going to come from, or where our next brilliant breakthroughs will emerge. The world must welcome all brilliant minds to the table. Accessibility must take the lead.

Pamela Agar, Digital Lead at Imperial College London

People.

Accessibility is not a luxury.

And it is everyone’s responsibility.

Thank you! Some more resources to get you started:

accessibilitystart.com

Miriam Thomas @andmiriam

Tracey Falk @traceyfalk