Charlii Parker - The Why, When and How of including people with disability in the design process.

UX Australia 2021 DAY 2

Allow me to take you on a journey exploring the Why, When and How of including people with disability (PWD) in design practices. Not as an unexpected overhead, or “nice to have”, but as business as usual.

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1. The Why, When and How of including People with Disability in the Design Process UX Australia 2021 Charlii Parker Digital Accessibility Consultant/Intopia Connect Co-ordinator @Intopia 25 August 2021
3. What Drives Accessibility? Access It’s law Market share Social Responsibility To provide access for all Fear of litigation Capturing the disability dollar It’s the right thing to do
4. What Drives Design? Satisfaction Efficiency Effectiveness Technical Accessibility Satisfaction with experience Time on task Accuracy and completeness WCAG Compliance High Low Level of accessibility
5. Technical testing verifies that each function of the software application operates in conformance with the requirement specification.
6. Nothing About US Without US
7. Outcomes Innovation Empathy Insights Usability Drives Improvement Builds understanding Builds comprehension Better products for all
9. Inception
10. Cost of fixing issues increases during the project lifecycle
12. Personas https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-disabilities-and-impai rments-user-profiles Claudi a Ro n
13. Focus Groups
14. Designs and wireframes
15. Built Product
17. Know your user Build a relationship with disability organisations 1 Include people with disability in your regular test cycle 2 Understand disability etiquette 3 Include a simple and accessible feedback mechanism 4
18. Things to consider: technical proficiency software and hardware usage (e.g. PC versus mobile) congenital versus acquired disability age
19. The session Allow more time for usability sessions with people with disability 01 Allow users to bring their own devices if possible 02 Have an assistive technology specialist at the session 03 Consider testing in their environment versus your office 04 Consider how users will get to your session 05 Pay your users for their time and travel 06
20. Wrap Up •Consider accessibility early •Don’t rely on one persons experience •Allow users to bring their own devices •Allow extra time for task completion •Known usability issues are often more of a problem for people with disabilities
21. Let’s chat @Intopia Intopia intopia.digital hello@intopia.digital Charlii Parker Email: charlii.parker@intopia.digital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlii-parker-931b1b65/