A presentation at Accessibility and Inclusion, The Outlook in in Melbourne VIC, Australia by Julie Grundy
Slides for Accessibility & Inclusion, The Outlook 2025 Julie Grundy Head of Accessibility Assessment
I help people make sure they’ve reached whatever accessibility standard they’re trying to meet
Clients who include designers early in the process
There are three great design themes: making something beautiful, making something easier, and making something possible. Dan Saffer 100 Things I Know About Design, 2021
It’s not easy to tap small touch targets on your phone
It’s annoying to get error messages for mistakes you could have avoided if you’d known before you clicked the Submit button
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v2.2 • Understanding WCAG: Supporting materials with research references
• Any accessibility professional (including me!) • WebAIM’s plain-language version of WCAG • Intopia’s Accessibility Not-Checklist by job roles
This web page has a table full of links to download Excel files
To get below the table to a different Excel file, a keyboard user would have to press Tab 79 times.
Find out what your users with disabilities need and want
People with disabilities increase the value of your research (especially if they already use your product!)
Usability testing with people with disability is a talk by Andrew Arch and Sarah Pulis for Inclusive Design 24 on YouTube
Let’s make beautiful tools that work for the community and make more things possible
Photo credits Woman holding smartphone: Alexey Elfimov, Unsplash. Team meeting: Chona Kasinger for Disabled and Here. Know My Name exhibit: National Gallery of Australia. www.intopia.digital hello@intopia.digital
Accessibility is often left to developers (or to the last minute!). But good design of all types, as early as possible, makes an enormous impact on the overall accessibility of a product. Where do you start and what do you need to know? What if you do it wrong? Who are your allies? Julie will show you how to take charge of the design aspects of accessibility, own it and share it.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
The most commonly used accessibility guidelines in Australia
Supporting documentation for WCAG which explains the goals of each requirement, and gives examples of ways to pass and fail them.
A checklist which describes WCAG requirements in plain language, but also links through to the actual WCAG specification.
It’s not a WCAG checklist! But it is a plain language list of things you need to do to create an accessible digital product. It has filter and sort controls so you can group the requirements by job role or topic.
A talk by Andrew Arch and Sarah Pulis about how you can get started on including people with disability as part of your user research. On the YouTube channel of the Inclusive Design 24 conference, in the playlist of talks from 2019.
for free. You
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