Slides for Accessibility & Inclusion, The Outlook 2025
Julie Grundy
Head of Accessibility Assessment
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Accessibility Assessment?
I help people make sure they’ve reached whatever accessibility standard they’re trying to meet
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Who gets the best results?
Clients who include designers early in the process
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This quote sums up the contribution that designers can make to accessibility
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
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Accessibility makes things Possible
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A form with tiny radio buttons
It’s not easy to tap small touch targets on your phone
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Requirements they didn't tell you about
It’s annoying to get error messages for mistakes you could have avoided if you’d known before you clicked the Submit button
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Standards create a baseline
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v2.2
• Understanding WCAG: Supporting materials with research references
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Your allies and tools
• Any accessibility professional (including me!)
• WebAIM’s plain-language version of WCAG
• Intopia’s Accessibility Not-Checklist by job roles
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Accessibility makes things Easier
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Usability example
This web page has a table full of links to download Excel files
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79 clicks
To get below the table to a different Excel file, a keyboard user would have to press Tab 79 times.
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User research and co-design
Find out what your users with disabilities need and want
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Your allies
People with disabilities increase the value of your research (especially if they already use your product!)
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Getting started
Usability testing with people with disability is a talk by Andrew Arch and Sarah Pulis for Inclusive Design 24 on YouTube
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Accessibility makes things Beautiful
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We all deserve beautiful things
Let’s make beautiful tools that work for the community and make more things possible
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Let’s chat
Photo credits
Woman holding smartphone: Alexey Elfimov, Unsplash.
Team meeting: Chona Kasinger for Disabled and Here.
Know My Name exhibit: National Gallery of Australia.
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