This is a talk about how we occasionally exclude people from using our websites and mobile applications despite following accessibility guidelines. If we focus on people over technology and use the Inclusive Design Principles to help us do this we can deliver thoughtful an inclusive websites and applications.
3. Message from the management
If you identify as one of the following we ask that you
leave the auditorium with immediate affect:
Blind, low vision, colour blind, wear glasses, has chronic
pain, limited dexterity, no upper body movement, are
deaf, hard of hearing, have dyslexia, struggle with
reading, have a cognitive impairment, RSI, use a mobile,
forgot your headphones, use pinch zoom, are under 4
years old, over 70, have vertigo, feel anxious, depressed,
panicky, hung-over, or drunk…
4. • Behind every great site or application
lies thought, empathy and inclusion.
This doesn’t happen by accident, it
happens by design.
8. The most frustrating input issue is
not being able to see my password
as I type. Whether I’m using voice
dictation or a single finger…precise
input is extremely difficult. This
difficulty is increased when you
introduce special characters…found
in passwords.
- James Williamson
18. Panning and scrolling are the necessary evils of screen-magnification. The physical
and cognitive load of being zoomed in to a small area of the overall screen presents
bigger barriers than you might think. It’s tiring, and easy to get lost, or miss
important content because it’s in an unexpected area of the overall screen.
- Challenges, opportunities and the potential for low-vision access, Matt Tylee
Atkinson
19. • Priority
• Help users focus on core tasks, features, and information by prioritising
them within the content and layout.
26. Lucy
Lives on a boat
Tech savvy
Is fearless
Losing her sight
27. •Situation
• People use your interface in different situations. Make sure your interface
delivers a valuable experience to people regardless of their circumstances.
34. It can be difficult today to visualise the building as
it looked a hundred years ago, but as we follow
the tour, imagine the rooms with their royal
furniture and ornaments removed, and with lino
covering the floors, and boards protecting the
walls. You’ll have the opportunity to see photos of
the Pavilion during its time as a hospital
throughout our tour.
www.brightonmuseums.org
35. It can be difficult today to visualise the building as
it looked a hundred years ago, but as we follow
the tour, imagine the rooms with their royal
furniture and ornaments removed, and with lino
covering the floors, and boards protecting the
walls. You’ll have the opportunity to see photos of
the Pavilion during its time as a hospital
throughout our tour.
www.brightonmuseums.org
36. •Comparable experience
• Ensure your interface provides a comparable experience for all so people
can accomplish tasks in a way that suits their needs without undermining
the quality of the content.
37. alt="Three hot air balloons hang
together in a calm, sunny sky"
I used to have sight so I appreciate descriptive alt
text on decorative images.
- Léonie Watson
39. Thank you @iheni
Inclusivedesignprinciples.org
simpleprimate.com/blog/motor
TPG blog – Challenges, opportunities and
the potential for low vision access
40. • Web accessibility Guidelines focus on:
• code over design
• technology over people
• compliance over experience
41. Designing for motor impairments doesn’t
really have a single approach that
guarantees accessibility. You need to
consider how your interactions might
limit those with motor function
disabilities and provide an alternative
means of addressing them.
Explain velvet rope
Welcome to the velvet rope.
It amazes me that organization spend time, money and effort of advertising and marketing their digital products only to passively aggressively put up a velvet rope as the last hurdle for so many people trying to get in.
Well this is awkward, I wear glass's for reading so I guess that’s my talk cancelled. Who else in the room has to leave? Make a noise, raise a hand or do whatever your thing is?
Billy glasses
Karl, 70, no, hungover
You?
Quote
We can enable, disable ppl by design. It’d about how people experience your site. I might be a blind screen reader user and you might be a blnd screen reader user but this does not meam I access content the same way you do or that I take away the same experience, context, situation and who you are come into play.
I used to think WCAG inadequately addressed inclusive design…sure it covers colour contrast, focus states colour and meaning but this is really a small part of deign.
Now I understand that guidelines can’t address inclusive design. Design is subjective, it changes due to context and is experienced differently by each and every one of us. As such you can’t map it to guidelines. It’s not testable in that way
Not guidelines, intended to inspire and proboke converstion and empathy
Just one tool to help you remove that velvet rope
One thing James struggles with is dexterity. In particular this impacts how he uses forms. Forms are horrible for a number of reasons for a number of people including: Comprehension, Recall, Accuracy, Dexterity
James Williamson
Family man
Speaker
Educator
ALS
The long goodbye
http://simpleprimate.com/blog/motor
Control
Something else that James strugles with is (lead up to CONTROL)
Control
Control
Bands he likes tend to play smaller venues which are unfirtunnately less accessible than larger more commercial venus
Something else that impacts people like James are gestures. Some are easier than others.
Swipe left – standard gesture BUT with no visual affordance…
Some of us find it easier to swipe others to tap
Priority
Priority
TPG Blog post: Challenges, opportunities and the potential for low-vision access
“Panning and scrolling are the necessary evils of screen-magnification. The physical and cognitive load of being zoomed in to a small area of the overall screen, constantly panning about to find content of interest can present bigger barriers than you might think. It can be tiring, and is easy to get lost, or miss important content because it’s in an unexpected area of the overall screen.
Priority
Clear purpose
Consistency
I don’t have a picture of Colin because we never met each other in person
Consistency
This also ties in with our next principle of consistency.
External consistency
Web conventions
Web standards
WAI ARIA Authoring Practices
Situation
Changeable
Wifi
errified – Lucy has grown up with mobile and considers herself tech savvy. Or at least she thought she did. She is now propelled into a world of access technologies and screen readers which is utterly and alien to her. She feels intimidated and at a complete loss. She doesn’t know anyone who uses this stuff or know where she can go to get support. She will get there but today she is in an increasingly dark world and feeling at a loss at not being able t do what she could without thinking yesterday.
The one bridge is that she has used features of a phone and how she can control her environment using it.
For me this principle grounds me in remembering this is about people first, not technology.
Value
There’s only a picture of her hand because she’s self-conscious she’s always saying I don’t look good today like many of us she tries unconscious and she often thinks that when something is wrong it’s her fault so when it comes to using the web account she can be very very difficult for her she is one of those people who never thinks she would never think there’s something wrong with the website it’s her she blames on herself
Patricia
Retired, mid 70’s
First female President of ABC Sports
Ran her own business
Fibromyalgia
What helps Patricia is the principle of value
Casting is a great example of how we cab enable people to hack their environment using their phone. I tested setting up Chromecast on iPhone using Voiceover at home when we implemented it in iPlayer from set up of the app through to finding something that I wanted to watch on my iPhone. Worked a dream, so much so I jumped up and down on the sofa and then cried because I knew what this would mean for some people I know My daughter who was 4 at the time quietly backed her way out the room, she thought I’d lost it.
COMPARABLE EXPERIENCE
My friends visited Brighton Pavilion recently. Blind and low vision, happy to find an audio guide.
Descriptions too visual for MY blind friend, and it didn’t give him a sense of the building.
Not an equivalent experience although technically “accessible”.
White chocolate hershy kisses
My friends visited Brighton Pavilion recently. Blind and low vision, happy to find an audio guide.
Descriptions too visual for MY blind friend, and it didn’t give him a sense of the building.
Not an equivalent experience although technically “accessible”.
My friends visited Brighton Pavilion recently. Blind and low vision, happy to find an audio guide.
Descriptions too visual for MY blind friend, and it didn’t give him a sense of the building.
Not an equivalent experience although technically “accessible”.
Why comparable rather than equivalent?
Dunkirk – Shepherd Tone
It's an illusion where there's a continuing ascension of tone.
People don’t use your site, people visit your site. People visit because they, need to use it, have been told to use it, pay to use it, or want to use it.
Matt, Sam, Lucy, Colin, James, Patricia, Victor and Karo
People are guests. You are hosts, I’m sure not any of you want to offer a basic, experience, when you invite people round. Hospitality (then equate inclusion at the end of the talk
I will Tweet these links.
I used to think WCAG inadequately addressed inclusive design…sure it covers colour contrast, focus states colour and meaning but this is really a small part of deign.
Now I understand that guidelines can’t address inclusive design. Design is subjective, it changes due to context and is experienced differently by each and every one of us. As such you can’t map it to guidelines. It’s not testable in that way
I think it is important in this business to remember that we don’t get to say the last word. That belongs to the people who visit our websites and mobile application; our guests.
Rather you need to consider how your interactions might limit those with motor function disabilities and whether or not you can modify them to be more inclusive or provide alternate means of addressing them
This is why inclusive design can only be met in part through WCAG. It can’t boil down to a set of guideliens but instead to an understanding of who are guests are and the Inclusive Design Principles.
Ultimately, we can both enable abnd disable people by design
I think it is important in this business to remember that we don’t get to say the last word. That belongs to the people who visit our websites and mobile applicatuon; our guests.
Designing for motor impairments requires as much consideration as other disabilities but doesn’t really have a single approach that guarantees accessibility