Topic: Accessibility

Accessibility & Color: Addressing Color Blindness in the User Experience

What You’ll Learn

• Embrace color as more than branding
• Discover that color often imparts information
• Understand the steps to designing for Color Vision Deficiency

Accessibility: The Curb Cut Effect

What You’ll Learn

• People first: Are you designing for differences?
• Get a new perspective on your product

Accessibility Thinking

What You’ll Learn

• How to set goals by asking the right questions
• How to redefine QA as it relates to accessibility
• How to get new perspectives by expanding your community

Accessibility: Connect to Recruit

What You’ll Learn

• The importance of finding research and usability testing participants with disabilities
• Organizations and places that can help connect you with potential participants
• How to establish respectful relationships

Getting from Barrier-free to Delightful

Why can’t we make it easier to be accessible?

Why can’t we aim for great user experiences that are also accessible? Creating accessible technology has to go beyond minimal compliance with standards that meets the law but may not be usable.

We need a bigger goal: creating delight for everyone. We’ll start by exploring what makes a delightful experience and how a good balance small pleasures and anticipated needs supports accessible UX in both big and small ways. Like any UX, this concern for users has to be part of every design decision.

There Are No Buts in Progressive Enhancement

What You’ll Learn

• A comprehensive overview of the devices people are using
• A more precise definition of “smartphone”
• A framework to see experiences as a continuum
• A game plan to increase the accessibility and availability of your projects

Better Accessibility through Your User Research

What You’ll Learn

• Push innovation by designing for extremes
• Understand the difference between accessibility and usability
• Open up your recruiting
• Make people comfortable and maximize your learning

Mobile Behavior and Design Trends

What You’ll Learn

• What’s going to make your whole company focus on mobile
• How people interact with their mobiles device
• To think about how people are using your designs on mobile
• How you can design for this new reality and even create experiences that translate from mobile to laptop to TV

Accessibility as a Design Tool

What You’ll Learn

• Integrate accessibility into your process
• Identify design problems earlier
• Look to the extremes for your design
• Encourage a frictionless flow

The Truth about Ajax and Accessibility

What You’ll Learn

• “So you’re telling us Ajax can be used to make things MORE accessible?”
• Real World Solutions for Real World Problems
• Principles, Techniques, and Testing will Clear the Path
• Avoid Common Traps