Beyond Colors and Captions: How to Provide More Inclusive Accessibility
summary
Argues that captions and contrast are necessary but insufficient, and lists concrete fixes: use webAIM-style contrast checkers, provide image descriptions beyond alt text for context and emotion, offer closed captions, live transcripts or sign-language interpreters, and build UI choices like Duolingo "I cannot speak/listen" option so audio-dependent flows have alternatives. Notes tools (AX DevTools, CSS accessibility features) and that VR can overstimulate some users; emphasizes recruiting people with lived experience to validate designs.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 5:08Disabilities and Inclusion
- 6:07Visual Types of visual impairments
- 15:08Hearing & Speech is
- 19:30Physical
- 26:32Cognitive
- 37:36Inclusive Accessibility
- 46:48Importance of Lived Experiences
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