What Designers Need to Know About Accessibility
What Designers Need to Know About Accessibility

Author: Geoffrey Crofte

Publisher: Geoffrey Crofte

Published: 2024-10-22

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9998774551

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Have you ever felt lost in the complex world of digital accessibility? You're not alone. Understanding standards like RGAA and WCAG can sometimes seem like a real challenge. But guess what? It's not you. WCAG can seem overly technical, making the task even more daunting. That's why this book aim at demystifying digital accessibility, specifically tailored for designers. And I had the chance to work on it with other experts! Dive into the realm of digital accessibility with "What Designers Need to Know About Accessibility," an innovative guide that transcends conventional standards to provide designers (and developers) with a practical and humanised approach to creating accessible digital experiences. Crafted to go beyond the complex rules set by WCAG & RGAA, this book offers a transformative journey, unveiling tangible tips and actionable ideas. Explore the diverse needs covered by RGAA while going further by integrating ergonomic practices that will genuinely enhance the experience for all users, regardless of their type of disability. Discover how to make your creations accessible without compromising creativity and innovation. The author shares profound perspectives on the specific challenges designers face, providing practical solutions and tips to simplify the complexity of standards. Learn to integrate accessibility into the core of the design process, transforming how you conceptualise and deliver digital products. This book is not just a technical guide but a travel companion for web professionals, assisting them in creating digital experiences that embrace user diversity. Get ready to rethink your approaches, adopt innovative practices, and pave the way for a new era of human-centered design.

Accessible America
Accessible America

Author: Bess Williamson

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1479802492

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A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design. Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.

Inclusive Design for a Digital World
Inclusive Design for a Digital World

Author: Regine M. Gilbert

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1484250168

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What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible. For a long time, the concept of accessibility has been limited in terms of only defining physical spaces. However, change is afoot: personal technology now plays a part in the everyday lives of most of us, and thus it is a responsibility for designers of apps, web pages, and more public-facing tech products to make them accessible to all. Our digital era brings progressive ideas and paradigm shifts – but they are only truly progressive if everybody can participate. In Inclusive Design for a Digital World, multiple crucial aspects of technological accessibility are confronted, followed by step-by-step solutions from User Experience Design professor and author Regine Gilbert. Think about every potential user who could be using your product. Could they be visually impaired? Have limited motor skills? Be deaf or hard of hearing? This book addresses a plethora of web accessibility issues that people with disabilities face. Your app might be blocking out an entire sector of the population without you ever intending or realizing it. For example, is your instructional text full of animated words and Emoji icons? This makes it difficult for a user with vision impairment to use an assistive reading device, such as a speech synthesizer, along with your app correctly. In Inclusive Design for a Digital World, Gilbert covers the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 requirements, emerging technologies such as VR and AR, best practices for web development, and more. As a creator in the modern digital era, your aim should be to make products that are inclusive of all people. Technology has, overall, increased connection and information equality around the world. To continue its impact, access and usability of such technology must be made a priority, and there is no better place to get started than Inclusive Design for a Digital World. What You’ll LearnThe moral, ethical, and high level legal reasons for accessible design Tools and best practices for user research and web developers The different types of designs for disabilities on various platforms Familiarize yourself with web compliance guidelines Test products and usability best practicesUnderstand past innovations and future opportunities for continued improvementWho This Book Is For Practitioners of product design, product development, content, and design can benefit from this book.

Access by Design
Access by Design

Author: Sarah Horton

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0133067343

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In just over a decade, the Web has evolved from an experimental tool for a limited community of technically inclined people into a day-to-day necessity for millions upon millions of users. Today’s¿Web designers must consider not only the content needs of the sites they create, but also the wide range of additional needs their users may have: for example, those with physical or cognitive disabilities, those with slow modems or small screens, and those with limited education or familiarity with the Web. Bestselling author Sarah Horton argues that simply meeting the official standards and guidelines for Web accessibility is not enough. Her goal is universal usability, and in Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, Sarah describes a design methodology¿ that addresses accessibility requirements but then goes beyond. As a result, designers learn how to optimize page designs to work more effectively for more users, disabled or not. Working through each of the main functional features of Web sites, she provides clear principles for using HTML and CSS to deal with elements such as text, forms, images, and tables, illustrating each with an example drawn from the real world. Through these guidelines, Sarah makes a convincing case that good design principles benefit all users of the Web. In this book you will find: Clear principles for using HTML and CSS to design functional and accessible Web sites Best practices for each of the main elements of Web pages—text, forms, images, tables, frames, links, interactivity, and page layout Seasoned advice for using style sheets that provide flexibility to both designer and user without compromising usability Illustrations of actual Web sites, from which designers can model their own pages Instructions for providing keyboard accessibility, flexible layouts, and user-controlled environments Practical tips on markup, and resources

Inclusive Design Patterns
Inclusive Design Patterns

Author: Heydon Pickering

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9783945749432

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We make inaccessible and unusable websites and apps all the time, but it's not for lack of skill or talent. It's just a case of doing things the wrong way. We try to build the best experiences we can, but we only make them for ourselves and for people like us. This book looks at common interface patterns from the perspective of an inclusive designer-someone trained in building experiences that cater to the huge diversity of abilities, preferences and circumstances out there. There's no such thing as an 'average' user, but there is such a thing as an average developer. This book will take you from average to expert in the area that matters the most: making things more readable and more usable to more people.

A Web for Everyone
A Web for Everyone

Author: Sarah Horton

Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

Published: 2014-01-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 193382039X

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If you are in charge of the user experience, development, or strategy for a web site, A Web for Everyone will help you make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. Rooted in universal design principles, this book provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

Accessibility for Everyone
Accessibility for Everyone

Author: Laura Kalbag

Publisher: Book Apart

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781952616327

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Get sure footing on the path to designing with accessibility.

Reading and Attention Disorders
Reading and Attention Disorders

Author: Drake D. Duane

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first clinical description of the struggle to read. Based on a 1998 National Dyslexia Research Foundation conference, this collection of 11 papers by US neuroscientists presents recent evidence bearing on the linkage of reading and attention disorders. Considerations include possible genetic neuroanatomy abnormalities, epidemiology, and case studies of the abilities of persons with dyslexia. Includes brain images and plots of task trials. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Smashing Book
The Smashing Book

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9783943075380

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These eBooks are the long-awaited digital version of our bestselling printed book about best practices in modern Web design. They share valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding, provide professional advice for designing mobile applications and building successful e-commerce websites, and explain common coding mistakes and how to avoid them. You'll explore the principles of professional design thinking and graphic design and learn how to apply psychology and game theory to create engaging user experiences.