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Designing an atmosphere for accessibility

Andy Clarke
October 21, 2013

Designing an atmosphere for accessibility

Accessibility Day 2013. Oslo, Norway, October 24th 2013.

Andy Clarke

October 21, 2013
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  1. Designing an
    atmosphere of
    accessibility
    Andrew Clarke @malarkey

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  7. accessifyforum.com

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  9. I don’t care about
    accessibility.”
    veen.com/jeff/archives/000503.html
    17 March 2004

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  10. Jeffrey Veen
    Don’t care.
    Not an issue.
    Hardly ever comes up.”

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  11. When you design exclusively
    and specifically for this
    medium, so many of the things
    we consider problems just
    start to fall away.”

    Jeffrey Veen

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  12. When web design is
    practiced as a craft and not
    a consolation, accessibility
    comes for free.”

    Jeffrey Veen

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  13. You suck.”

    Jack Crowther

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  14. Designing adaptable pages is
    designing accessible pages.
    And perhaps the great
    promise of the web is
    accessibility, regardless of
    difficulties, to information.”

    alistapart.com/article/dao
    April 7, 2000

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  15. We should embrace the fact that
    the web doesn’t have the same
    constraints [as the printed page]
    and design for this flexibility.
    But first, we must ‘accept the ebb
    and flow of things’.”

    alistapart.com/article/dao
    April 7, 2000

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  16. 640x480

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  18. 800x600

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  19. 1024x768

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  22. 320x480
    3.5" iPhone

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  23. 480x320
    3.5" iPhone in landscape orientation

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  24. 568x320
    4" iPhone in landscape orientation

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  26. Arguing about 640, 800 or
    1024 pixels is like arguing
    about whether Pepsi tastes
    better than Coke when really, a
    nice glass of water would be
    much more refreshing.”

    http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/a_list_taken_apart
    Jeremy Keith

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  27. The numbers game is a red
    herring. A big fixed-width
    red herring.”

    http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/a_list_taken_apart
    Jeremy Keith

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  28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brad_frost/7387764524

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  29. Responsive web design offers
    us a way forward, finally
    allowing us to ‘design for the
    ebb and flow of things’.”

    alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design
    May 25, 2010

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  30. ✎ ⚙ 
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    Plan Design Develop Deploy

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  33. Worse still are the
    expectations that static visuals
    set in the minds of clients,
    particularly when designers
    use them as a method to get
    sign-off for a design.”

    stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/walls_come_tumbling_down_presentation_slides_and_transcript/
    June 28, 2009

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  34. I often wonder, ‘is the fact that
    so many web pages are fixed-
    width and centered, a direct
    result of clients signing off
    fixed-width design visuals?’”

    stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/walls_come_tumbling_down_presentation_slides_and_transcript/
    June 28, 2009

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  35. User experience design
    Site audit (existing assets)
    Flows and navigation maps
    User stories or scenarios
    Personas
    Site maps and content inventory
    Wireframes (screen blueprints or storyboards)
    Prototypes
    Written specifications (describing behavior or design)
    Graphic mockups (Precise visual of expected end result)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design

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  36. User experience design
    Site audit (existing assets)
    Flows and navigation maps
    User stories or scenarios
    Personas
    Site maps and content inventory
    Wireframes (screen blueprints or storyboards)
    Prototypes
    Written specifications (describing behavior or design)
    Graphic mockups (Precise visual of expected end result)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design

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  41. Designer
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  42. Percentage-based layouts
    Media Queries
    Native form element styling
    Font rendering
    Flexible leading and measure
    Visuals can’t communicate

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  43. Browsers’ CSS capabilities
    Pseudo-classes
    CSS3 ligatures and swashes
    CSS3 animations
    CSS3 transitions
    Visuals can’t communicate

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  44. Graphic design tools
    are bringing a knife
    to a gunfight

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  45. Stephen Hay’s workflow
    Content inventory
    Design in text (structured content)
    Linear design
    Breakpoint graph
    Design for various breakpoints
    HTML design prototype
    Present prototype screenshots
    Present prototype after revision
    Document for production
    http://slideshare.net/stephenhay/responsive-design-workflow

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  46. Content inventory
    Design in text (structured content)
    Linear design
    Breakpoint graph
    Design for various breakpoints
    HTML design prototype
    Present prototype screenshots
    Present prototype after revision
    Document for production
    http://slideshare.net/stephenhay/responsive-design-workflow
    Stephen Hay’s workflow

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  47. Designers should
    write markup to
    communicate the
    meaning in a design

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  52. design - layout = atmosphere

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  53. Typography
    Typefaces, type treatments and white space
    Colour
    Emotion and interaction vocabulary
    Texture
    Decoration, line-work, patterns and shapes

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  58. Typography

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  64. Elements
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  68. http://goo.gl/o23Vc

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  69. Typography decisions
    for accessibility
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  80. Contrast

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  81. Typography
    Typographic colour
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  88. Colour

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  107. Texture

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  108. Backgrounds
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  115. Web designers will have to
    look beyond the layout to
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    http://trentwalton.com/2011/07/14/content-choreography
    Trent Walton

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  116. Design guides

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  118. FRV BRAND GUIDELINES
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    The back of pack copy should appear in Futura Std. This sans serif font has been chosen for its simple style and clarity even in smaller
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    All fonts are OpenType from the Adobe Font Folio 11. (www.adobe.com/uk/products/fontfolio)

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    Food product, please contact your Licensing Manager.

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  131. The web’s content must be
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