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Accessibility as a Design Tool

Accessibility as a Design Tool

My opening keynote from Accessibility Camp Boston 2012 - where I talked about Accessibility, Design, Innovation and using accessibility as a design tool to make designs better for everyone, whether they have a disability or not.

Derek Featherstone

September 15, 2012
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  1. I think some of why people don’t do Web accessibility

    is a lack of awareness, but a lot of it is because people think it’s too hard. What would help is if you can start teaching people HOW to integrate it into typical workflows for specific audiences—devs. project managers, Scrum Masters, designers
  2. I think they just genuinely struggled to understand the benefits.

    Many fail to realize that it’s not just about people who are blind or deaf—many people could benefit from a more accessible site.
  3. Derek, all this stuff that you’ve taught us... yes, it

    makes this more accessible, but really, fundamentally, this is just a better design, period.
  4. Accessibility is not binary, all-or-nothing, black and white. We have

    every shade of grey in between. How you view this point frames everything that you learn and do about accessibility.
  5. By examining the extreme ends of a set of phenomena

    in depth, the entire universe of relationships can be illuminated since other instances will fall somewhere on the map of relations and links. ‘ ‘
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