Presentations
Content, Context, Users, and Inclusive Design (PowerPoint, 5 Mb, 43 slides)
The handouts are as follows:
- Accessibility Heuristics (PDF, 300 Kb, 6 pages). Caitlin Geier and Denis Boudreau. (2018, April). Deque Systems.
- WebAIM WCAG 2.0 Checklist
- Testing for Digital Accessibility (Word document, 26 KB, 4 pages)
You can also check out the rest of this website. Perhaps you’d like to learn more about digital accessibility?
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Here is an introductory presentation from UX Akron on May 23, 2018 (PowerPoint, 5.3 Mb, 56 slides), and thanks to UX Akron there is also a video recording of the intro presentation (YouTube, 57 minutes 27 seconds).
References
These references are roughly in the order they appear in the presentations.
May, Matt. “The Same, But Different: Breaking Down Accessibility, Universality, and Inclusion in Design.” (2018, April 2.) Adobe Blog. https://theblog.adobe.com/different-breaking-accessibility-universality-inclusion-design
Brault, Matthew. “Americans with disabilities: 2010. (Report number P70-131)” (2012, July.) United States Census Bureau. Retrieved from www.census.gov/library/publications/2012/demo/p70-131.html
Tognazzini, Bruce. “Inclusive Design, part 1, with some shocking revelations about your future.” (2009, April). Ask Tog on Nielsen Norman Group. Retrieved from www.asktog.com/columns/077InclusiveDesignPart1.html
World Health Organization. “World report on disability.” (2011). World Health Organization. Retrieved from www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/
Microsoft Design. “Inclusive design at Microsoft.” (2016.) Microsoft. Retrieved from www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/inclusive
“ADA Title III lawsuits increase by 16% in 2017 largely due to website access lawsuits.” (2018, February 1). Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Retrieved from www.adatitleiii.com/2018/02/ada-title-iii-lawsuits-increase-by-14-percent-in-2017-due-largely-to-website-access-lawsuits-physical-accessibility-legislative-reform-efforts-continue/
Brault, Matthew. “Americans with disabilities: 2010. (Report number P70-131)” (2012, July) United States Census Bureau. Retrieved from www.census.gov/library/publications/2012/demo/p70-131.html
Groves, Karl. “List of web accessibility-related litigation and settlements.” (2017). Karl Groves’s blog. Retrieved from www.karlgroves.com/2011/11/15/list-of-web-accessibility-related-litigation-and-settlements/
“Measuring the Information Society Report 2017.” (2017). International Telecommunications Union. Retrieved from www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/publications/mis2017.aspx
“Retail website performance.” (2006, June 1). Jupiter Research. Retrieved from www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/report/akamai-site-abandonment-final-report.pdf
“World report on disability.” (2011). World Health Organization. Retrieved from www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/
“ADA and the Internet Legal Update”, CSUN 2018 Assistive Technology Conference, March 23, 2018. Kristina Launey – Seyfarth Shaw LLP; Tim Springer – Level Access
Hendren, Sarah. “All technology is assistive.” (2014, October 16.) Medium Backchannel. Retrieved from https://medium.com/backchannel/all-technology-is-assistive-ac9f7183c8cd
NVDA: https://www.nvaccess.org/download/
JAWS: https://www.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS
Worldwide Web Consortium. “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0” (2008, December 11.) Web Accessibility Initiative. Retrieved from www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
Web Accessibility Initiative, www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Quick Reference, www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref
WebAIM WCAG checklist, www.webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist
Viget’s interactive WCAG, code.viget.com/interactive-wcag
Groves, Karl. “Everything you know about accessibility testing is wrong.” www.karlgroves.com/2014/02/13/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-1/
www.karlgroves.com/2014/02/20/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-2/
www.karlgroves.com/2014/03/07/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-is-wrong-part-3/
www.karlgroves.com/2014/03/13/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-4/
Karl Groves of Tenon wrote an article on choosing an automated accessibility testing tool (2013, January 28). www.karlgroves.com/2013/06/28/choosing-an-automated-accessibility-testing-tool-13-questions-you-should-ask/
AccessibleTech.org has a similar article titled “How can I select a Web accessibility software tool?” accessibletech.org/access_articles/webinfo/selectWebAccessTool.php
Marcy Sutton, an Angular core team member, has a presentation on the magic of automated accessibility testing (2015). marcysutton.github.io/a11y-automated-testing/#/
CSS Tricks covers a few tools in an article by Chris Coyier (2017, December 14). css-tricks.com/accessibility-testing-tools/
eBay has the cleverly named OATMEAL (Open Accessibility Testing Method for Experts And Layfolk) that goes through how they do their testing. ebay.gitbooks.io/oatmeal/
Vox Media publishes a checklist for QA teams. It’s basic but a decent starting point. accessibility.voxmedia.com/#qa
Duke University testing checklist. web.accessibility.duke.edu/learn/how-do-assessment
Elle Waters, “Lean Accessibility”, Level Access webinar, 31 July 2018. www.levelaccess.com/resources/agile-lifecycle
WAVE tool: http://wave.webaim.org/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wave-accessibility-tool/
Vital Accessibility Design Principles. Dashiel Neimark. (2018, April 30.) UX Matters. Adapting UX design principles for accessibility and inclusivity.
Designing for Our Future Selves. Paul Woodley. (2018, April 11.) Medium. Introduces an age-inclusive design heuristic: Attitude, Body, Cognition, Diversity.
(Vilhauer article series) http://www.eatingelephant.com/2018/04/accessible-editor-what-is-accessibility/
(Woodley article) https://medium.com/@paulw_design/designing-for-our-future-selves-time-to-relearn-our-a-b-c-ds-6da51472cb48
inclusivedesignprinciples.org
Inclusive Usability Testing (Slideshare, 68 slides). Adrian Roselli. (2018, April). Covers the additional setup and procedures you will need for usability testing with people with disabilities. https://www.slideshare.net/aardrian/inclusive-usability-testing-wordcamp-london
Tips for Conducting Usability Studies with Participants with Disabilities. Peter McNally. (2018, March 12). Smashing Magazine. He shares his lessons learned from real-world usability testing. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/tips-conducting-usability-studies-participants-disabilities/
Swallow, David. “Including People with Disabilities in Design.” 2018 August 7. The Paciello Group. Retrieved from https://www.paciellogroup.com/events/2018/08/webinar-august-30-including-people-with-disabilities-in-design/
Early prevention of accessibility issues, by Aidan Tierney. (2016, October 29; SlideShare.) Covers how a11y annotations can be made on wireframes. (www.slideshare.net/aidantierney/early-prevention-of-accessibility-issues-with-mockup-wireframe-reviews)
Designing wireframes keeping accessibility guidelines in mind. (2013, July 1; UX Stack Exchange.) Scroll down to read the responses from Henny Swan (a leading accessibility expert) and Matt Obee. (ux.stackexchange.com/questions/41586/designing-wireframes-keeping-accessibility-guidelines-in-mind)
Stop Designing for Only 85% of Users: Nailing Accessibility in Design, by Tom Graham and Andre Goncalves. (2017 October 23.) Smashing Magazine. (www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/10/nailing-accessibility-design/)
Placeholder research:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/
https://medium.theuxblog.com/4-reasons-to-avoid-using-placeholder-text-in-forms-8fc33e724e4f
https://uxdesign.cc/alternatives-to-placeholder-text-13f430abc56f
http://www.maxability.co.in/2016/01/placeholder-attribute-and-why-it-is-not-accessible/
shouldiuseacarousel.com
Fellowes, Adam. “The rise of the carousel.” (2012, August 10.) Adam Fellowes’ blog. www.adamfellowes.com/blog/user-experience/the-rise-of-the-carosuel
Goward, Chris. “Rotating offers: The scourge of home page design.” (2011, October 13.) Wider Funnel. www.widerfunnel.com/rotating-offers-the-scourge-of-home-page-design/
Nielsen, Jakob. “Auto-Forwarding Carousels and Accordions Annoy Users and Reduce Visibility.” (2013, January 19.) Nielsen Norman Group. www.nngroup.com/articles/auto-forwarding/
Runyon, Eirk. “Carousel Interaction Stats – June 2013 Update.” (2013, July 8.) erikrunyon.com/2013/07/carousel-interaction-stats/
Lauke, Patrick. “An introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications”. (2018, May 15.) The Paciello Group. Retrieved from patrickhlauke.github.io/aria/presentation
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices, w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices
Sutton, Marcy. “Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today”. Egghead.io, https://egghead.io/courses/start-building-accessible-web-applications-today
Udacity and Google course, https://www.udacity.com/course/web-accessibility–ud891
Lembrée, Dennis. “Web Accessibility Training for Developers”. (2018, May 9.) INDATA. Retrieved from www.eastersealstech.com/a11y/
(You can also find the 5-hour-long presentation at the same link.)
Walden, Alison. “Accessible Development Resources”. (2016, February 21.) medium.com/@lsnrae/accessible-development-resources-and-one-important-tip-a21419655775
Ten things (not on the W3C websites) to learn more about and to use.
- https://inclusive-components.design/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/accessibility/mobile
- https://webaim.org/discussion/archives
- https://twitter.com/hashtag/a11y?lang=en
- https://www.deque.com/
- https://www.levelaccess.com/
- https://www.paciellogroup.com/ , http://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/
- https://tenon.io/ , http://www.karlgroves.com/blog/
- https://www.nvaccess.org/download/
- https://wave.webaim.org/
Name Dropping
- Steve Faulkner (TPG, Technical Director)
- Léonie Watson (TPG, Director of Communications)
- Henny Swan (TPG, author)
- Heydon Pickering (consultant)
- Dennis Lembrée (consultant; Deque; WebAxe)
- Jennie Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft, Chief Accessibility Officer)
- Karl Groves (consultant, Tenon founder)
- Adrian Roselli (consultant)
- Lainey Feingold (lawyer, author)
- David Berman (consultant)