Inclusive Design posters from Barclays
Our friends at Barclays have designed some beautiful posters of the Inclusive Design Principles shared under Creative Commons. We thought we’d ask David Caldwell, Digital Accessibility Manager at Barclays, to…
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Inclusive Design Principles: Be Consistent
This article is one in a series of articles on TPGi blog aimed at unpacking each of the Inclusive Design Principles. This time the principle is Be Consistent. Look out…
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Inclusive Design Principles
Behind every great site or application lies thought, empathy and inclusion. This doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by design. How we get there is as unique, original, and diverse…
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Inclusive User Testing: Guelph Accessibility Conference 2017
The University of Guelph in Ontario holds an accessibility conference each year (this was its ninth), aptly named the Guelph Accessibility Conference. This year the theme was around becoming catalysts…
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Accessibility as a focus for people-first design: Manchester UX in the City
I gave a talk at the first UX in the City conference in Manchester, UK, on May 5th 2017, exploring the connection between people-first design and accessibility and inclusive design….
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Learning by involving people with disabilities in user research
One of the most exciting things about 2016 has been the growth in number of user-research projects that we’ve worked on with our clients. User research is about discovering and…
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The velvet rope: Northern UX
Probably a highlight of conference talks this year was giving the closing keynote at Northern UX in Manchester, UK. I spoke about ‘The velvet rope’ — being tantalizingly close to…
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The CSUN 2016 UXathon
Here’s your chance to help define what is meant by an accessible web experience! We’re interested in finding out more about how some common user interface design patterns can be…
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Developing a Manifesto for Accessible UX
Last month, a few TPGi folks attended the UXPA 2014 conference in an astonishingly hot and sunny London. As well as meeting with friends and colleagues old and new, and…
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Accessibility in Practice: A process-driven approach to accessibility
Attention to accessibility usually comes into play in the later phases of product development. Accessibility audits are typically performed during quality assurance and user acceptance testing phases. Remediation for any issues identified in the audit usually happens in code. However, the best fix for many complex accessibility issues may be to revisit the overall design approach; yet reworking designs at this late phase has a significant impact on timelines and processes. Any recommendation involving alternative designs is therefore usually unwelcome. Instead, the issues remain unresolved, or are resolved in a fashion that achieves technical accessibility but offers a compromised user experience.
The best approach to accessible user experience is to integrate accessibility into the design and development process. When accessibility is part of the practice of every member of the product development team, and when accessible features and functionality are built into design, content, and code, the result is a product that is accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
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Announcing a new podcast focused on accessible user experience
TPGi is co-sponsor with Rosenfeld Media, UIE, and O’Reilly of a new podcast focused on advancing accessibility awareness and skills in the user experience profession: A Podcast for Everyone: Practical conversations…
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Accessibility In Practice: Can Design Thinking Help?
Here at TPGi we do a great deal of work helping organizations remediate accessibility issues with their web sites and web applications. It’s very satisfying work — particularly when we…
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Accessible User Experience and W3C-WAI
Building an optimally accessible web site involves creating a technical platform that is as robust as possible under different browsing situations, including diverse assistive technology/browser combinations. Following the technical guidelines…