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Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
* Improve your websites, software, hardware, and consumer products to make them more useful to more people in more situations. * Develop effective accessibility solutions efficiently. Learn: * The basics of including accessibility in design projects: - Shortcuts for involving people with disabilities in your project. - Tips for comfortable interaction with people with disabilities. * Details on accessibility in each phase of the user-centered design process (UCD): - Examples of including accessibility in user group profiles, personas, and scenarios. - Guidance on evaluating for accessibility through heuristic evaluation, design walkthroughs, and screening techniques. - Thorough coverage of planning, preparing for, conducting, analyzing, and reporting effective usability tests with participants with disabilities. - Questions to include in your recruiting screener. - Checklist for usability testing with participants with disabilities. Online at www.uiAccess.com/justask
- GenresDesignNonfiction
200 pages, Paperback
First published February 21, 2007
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January 15, 2017
This book shows you how to include people with disabilities in every UX design decision. In doing so, you can make your design the best it can be.
The author, Shawn Lawton Henry, explains the diverse needs of people with disabilities. She explains how people with disabilities have different, unique needs. What works for one person may not work well for another person. Shawn shows you all sorts of things you can do to make your product accessible for as many people as possible. She gives you simple, inexpensive techniques and complex, cost-intensive techniques.
I appreciate the section on including people with disabilities in usability testing. Shawn explains, in thorough detail, how to include someone with a disability in a usability study. She explains how to recruit, how to plan the study, and how to analyze your findings when you have participants with disabilities.
Shawn also tells you how to infuse accessibility into other UX tools, like scenarios and personas.
The book was published in 2007. Some parts of the book are dated. The book doesn’t talk about the accessibility of the iPhone, for instance, because the iPhone was released in 2007, the same year the book was published.
Despite the age of the book, many parts are evergreen and still relevant today. Best yet, you can read the book online for free: http://www.uiaccess.com/justask/index...
The author, Shawn Lawton Henry, explains the diverse needs of people with disabilities. She explains how people with disabilities have different, unique needs. What works for one person may not work well for another person. Shawn shows you all sorts of things you can do to make your product accessible for as many people as possible. She gives you simple, inexpensive techniques and complex, cost-intensive techniques.
I appreciate the section on including people with disabilities in usability testing. Shawn explains, in thorough detail, how to include someone with a disability in a usability study. She explains how to recruit, how to plan the study, and how to analyze your findings when you have participants with disabilities.
Shawn also tells you how to infuse accessibility into other UX tools, like scenarios and personas.
The book was published in 2007. Some parts of the book are dated. The book doesn’t talk about the accessibility of the iPhone, for instance, because the iPhone was released in 2007, the same year the book was published.
Despite the age of the book, many parts are evergreen and still relevant today. Best yet, you can read the book online for free: http://www.uiaccess.com/justask/index...
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