Designer's a11y Responsibility

#a11yTO Conference | Toronto, Ontario | October 16 2018

Accessibility has traditionally only factored in the last stages of the Product Development Life Cycle:

if the developer decides to build responsibly,
if the QA team catches an issue, or
in the worst case scenario: if the company is sued by a customer after launch.

However, accessibility and inclusive thinking really starts long before the first wireframe is sketched out or a single line of code is ever written.

In this talk, I shared practical tips on how designers & content strategists can start capturing the 'subjective' aspects of accessibility in designs to take the guessing out of our developer and QA friends' work.

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Slide from presentation, showing an annotated comp of the mobile TELUS Digital website

Quote from Billy Gregory: "When UX doesn't consider ALL USERS, shouldn't it be known as 'some' User Experience, or... SUX?"

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Title slide on empty stage at TELUS Digital in Toronto

Primer: Designer's a11y Responsibility

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Meeting Room with a Dilbert comic strip on screen. Character 1, Project Manager: "You're jeopardizing our schedule. The entire project will failt and its all your fault". Character 2, designer: " Why is it MY fault?". Project Manager in response: "If a tree falls in the forest and we've already sold the tree, does it have quality?"

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