Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2020
2020-09-17
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[Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2016, Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2017, Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2018, Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2020]
who it's for
accessibility professionals, ux designers, design researchers, front-end developers, mobile developers, product managers, assistive technologists
topics
WCAG implementation and toolkit; accessible name computation; mobile accessibility testing methodology; XR accessibility and WebXR APIs; participatory co-design methods; inclusive color and contrast; emergency website kit with 11ty and Workbox; debugging with accessibility inspector and NVDA; captioning and transcript workflows; guerilla accessibility testing techniques
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone here spoke sign language | Claudio Luís Vera | 44m |
A coastal New England enclave develops a community-wide sign system so that for ~300 years everyone — hearing and deaf — communicates fluently using what… | ||
| Why Everyone Should Design For Chiari Malformation | Veronica Lewis | 30m |
Explains Chiari malformation (brain tissue extending into the spinal canal) and argues that designing for it improves products for many other conditions; cites… | ||
| Winning strategies for digital inclusion | Lainey Feingold, Lucy Greco, Stewart Hay | 50m |
Explains four actionable tactics: prioritize real people over checklists by recruiting diverse disabled testers and using structured negotiation instead of… | ||
| Designing for Users With Low Vision | Michele A. Williams, Synge Tyson | 48m |
Shows that responsive layouts and browser zoom (up to 500%) are not the same as full-screen magnification: browser zoom enlarges page content but can cause… | ||
| Let's Inclusify | Rachel Rodney | 45m |
Argues inclusive design by showing concrete results: a low-cost IV monitor DripAssist used in US hospitals Doctors Without Borders and the military and a… | ||
| Mobile accessibility: testing mobile sites and native apps for accessibility | Gian Wild | 50m |
A practical mobile testing methodology lays out five steps, recommends testing on real devices (iPhone/Safari, iPad/Safari, Android/Chrome) and shows many real… | ||
| XR Accessibility: The art of the possible | Joshue O Connor | 54m |
W3C Accessible Platform Architectures work incubates concrete XR specs and a draft called XR Accessibility User Requirements that lists navigation, captioning… | ||
| Debugging broken accessibility | Sarah Higley | 50m |
Concrete debugging recipes for tables, live regions and truncated-tooltips, not fluff: open Firefox and inspect the Firefox accessibility inspector tree to… | ||
| What are accessible names and why should you care? | Russ Weakley | 35m |
Explains exactly how browsers compute accessible names using the W3C Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1, shows the DOM → accessibility tree → API… | ||
| Participatory Co-Design, Grounded Methodology ... Post-Inclusion | Simon Hayhoe | 55m |
Argues for “post‑inclusion”: mainstream tech and art built with disabled people, not retrofitted, using a three‑phase grounded method (open coding… | ||
| Emergency Website Kit | Max Böck | 47m |
An emergency website kit is a static HTML starter that prioritizes resilience and accessibility by choosing simplicity over complex stacks, using 11ty to… | ||
| Simulation exercises through the lens of play | Chad Phoenix Rose Gowler | 49m |
Simulation “empathy” exercises often provoke distress and can worsen attitudes (Nario‑Redmond’s “Crip for a Day” finds raised empathy but increased… | ||
| Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind | Manuel Matuzović | 51m |
Covers practical rules and failures: use relative units like rem to respect browser font-size settings; add progressive enhancement with js class via… | ||
| Why have a team when you can have an army? | Charlie Turrell, Gareth Ford Williams | 50m |
BBC runs an accessibility champions network that grows organically to 210+ members over about a decade and cuts recurring accessibility crises from roughly… | ||
| The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers | Gareth Ford Williams | 49m |
Personal account argues ADHD is lifelong, often masked, and underdiagnosed — uploader cites 10–20% of children while presenter notes screening biases and… | ||
| UX research and ethnographic design for humanitarian technology | Eriol Fox | 51m |
Describes two concrete projects: Isooko (three-year EU consortium) and a six-month prototype Dispatcher, both run with Ushahidi tools and using Living Labs… | ||
| Whose web is it anyway? | Bruce Lawson | 48m |
History and current power plays over web standards: browser vendors, grassroots implementers, and funders decide what ships. Examples: crowdfunded work to add… | ||
| Bias in Artificial Intelligence | Njoki Kamau | 45m |
Algorithms trained on biased records systematically misclassify and harm people of color: NIST tests show some systems falsely ID Black and Asian faces 10 to… | ||
| Accessibility Toolkit: Understanding WCAG once and for all! | Marcelo Sales | 36m |
A pocket toolkit converts WCAG criteria into printed cards and a PWA that teams actually use to learn and apply accessibility: originally 61 cards updated to… | ||
| Designing digital assistants for those who need it most | Kiran Kaja | 52m |
Concrete examples and outcomes: voice control of Nest thermostat, Nest Hello doorbell and smart lights works (unlocking door and streaming feed to Chromecast)… | ||
| Guerilla Accessibility Testing Techniques | Crystal Preston-Watson | 46m |
Advocates covert, timeboxed reviews of high-impact features (login, forms, checkout) using simple checks: keyboard navigation and traps, alt text, 200% text… | ||
| Inclusive Color: from Photons and Physiology to Psychology and Philosophy | Sarah Brodwall | 49m |
Argues that usable color is about physics, physiology, psychology and culture, not just WCAG contrast numbers; uses relative luminance, CIE 1931 and sRGB to… | ||
| Care & Feeding of Accessibility Professionals | Natalie Patrice Tucker, Lori Samuels | 50m |
A volunteer group is building a mentoring program from the Digital Accessibility Eldering Project and reports concrete signals: an emailed survey expected to… | ||
| You, Ex. Breaking up with bad design | Billy Gregory | 50m |
Argues accessibility requires breaking habits and outlines five relationship phases—not so new beginnings, settling for good enough gateway, old habits, going… | ||
| The after party | Ian Pouncey, Eric Bailey, Adrian Roselli | 17m |
Casual roundtable recap lists specific sessions to catch: Russ Weakley, Simon Hayhoe, Charlie Turrell and Gareth Ford Williams on building champion programs… | ||
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