Acessibilidade

Accessibility is part of UX (it isn’t a swear word) People often go a bit wobbly when accessibility is mentioned.

Visions of text only websites, monochrome designs and static content swirl in their heads. Teeth are gritted, excuses are prepared, and battle conditions ensue. The reality is that accessibility is simply a key part of UX. A truly outstanding digital experience is a fusion of accessibility, usability, creativity and technology. The trick is to weave those things together, and to do that successfully there needs to be a cross pollination of skills and expertise.

The good news is that accessibility is usability under a magnifying glass. Meaningful reading order It’s a curiosity of web design that the visual order of content doesn’t have to match the order of content in the underlying HTML code. This is handy for web developers because they can easily make cosmetic changes to a web page without rewriting the HTML code. For blind people who use screen readers to access their computers, the HTML is a bit more important. Figure 2. The art of web accessibility. Another week and more ramblings off the top of my head… Don’t be afraid to be wrong Having been both a web designer and someone who managed designers for years, I’ve experienced the challenge of overcoming pride of ownership.

It’s one of the toughest things to work through. You pour hours into designing something you think is all-around awesome, then decision-makers pick it apart and users stumble through tests trying to navigate it. The good designers eventually learn that it’s not a personal attack. You’re designing other people’s products, so that other people can use them. It’s all part of the evolution of great products, or at least should be. The same is all the more true for user experience practitioners. Well-balanced UX designers shouldn’t get so hung up in their own beliefs that they think they know better than users or stakeholders.

This isn’t done through relying on personal taste — it’s done through the arsenal of tools a good UXer has in his or utility belt. I Love Active Tiles! [#a11y #accessibility #UX] It seems to me that moving ActiveTiles from a visual UI to an auditory format may be very useful for providing point Gist updates, and fast systems overview status information Microsoft Active Tiles Now, as you may know my thing is auditory glancing – and in the ‘mainstream’ glance interfaces.

Interfaces that give you the ‘gist’ of something but not directly a summary of the content; an interface which enable you to answer the question ‘Is this useful (to me)?’ I came to these interfaces via my work of blind mobility in the real world – and then in the virtual world of the web. Now it’s all about getting more information into less cognitive bandwidth; moving fast parallel visual information to slow parallel auditory information.

This gist / glancing is why I Love Active-Tiles! It also seems to me that moving ActiveTiles from a visual UI to an auditory format may be very useful for providing point Gist updates, and fast systems overview status information. Like this: Like Loading... UX - Accessibility. Acessibilidade web: Custo ou Benefício. Acessibilidade - Siga essa Idéia!