Accessibility for Everyone
summary
Demonstrates concrete failures (screen reader reading image filenames on a car dealer site, videos without audio descriptions, tiny hit targets, ambiguous red asterisks on forms) and concrete fixes: enable turn on image descriptions in Twitter, use transcripts and captions, provide meaningful alt text, label hamburger menus, and follow four inclusion checks—make it easy to see, hear, interact, and understand. Recommends practical tests like test designs in greyscale and prioritizes ethical design over decorative polish.
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chapters (41)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:32couldn't interact
- 3:26Inclusion
- 4:10We need to understand and care about differing needs.
- 5:11Accessible design
- 6:22Build meaningful products that serve people's needs and value their time.
- 7:04Don't be colonial.
- 7:16What makes inclusive design?
- 7:373. Make it easy to interact
- 7:51Unless the content itself is accessible, nothing is accessible.
- 8:05Provide alternatives.
- 9:02Your content may already be inclusive.
- 9:23Use plain language.
- 10:22Provide text alternatives.
- 11:14Write meaningful alternative text.
- 11:36photo of my dog.
- 11:47my dog pressed up against the dog barrier in the car, his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.
- 11:59Create transcripts for video and audio content.
- 12:40Use captions for video content.
- 13:02Good accessibility is good usability.
- 13:19Aesthetics are part of usability.
- 13:41Beauty is a thoughtfully- designed interface.
- 13:54Aesthetic principles
- 14:06Careful aesthetic decisions benefit people with cognitive differences.
- 14:35Affordances
- 14:56Interfaces shouldn't be surprising.
- 15:10Convention
- 15:38Don't be different for the sake of being different.
- 15:52But don't just do it because everybody else does it
- 16:20Small isn't tidy. It's just small.
- 16:44Don't use colour as a sole means to convey information.
- 18:04Test your designs in greyscale.
- 18:20convey meaning.
- 18:43Menu
- 19:09Distinguish ourselves on caring.
- 19:45We need ethics.
- 21:04Build for our future
- 21:19It's not always illegal to be unethical.
- 21:38It's early days but we've already gone too far...
- 21:53Build it for your own sake.
- 22:06Let's make better technology.
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