Becoming a consciously accessible content designer

A presentation at Content catch-up Europe, April 2021 in April 2021 in by Wojtek Aleksander

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Becoming a consciously accessible content designer

Wojtek Aleksander Content catch up Europe April 28, 2021

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Situational, temporary, and permanent disabilities

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Situational, temporary, and permanent cognitive disabilities

Situational - Anxious patient Temporary - Medication Permanent - Dyslexia Cognitive impediments Extension of Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit © Wojtek Aleksander

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Access is bidirectional

© Wojtek Aleksander

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Cognitive disability and information processing

Focus Decode Process Do © Wojtek Aleksander

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A lot needs to happen before you do something

Focus Decode Process Do © Wojtek Aleksander

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How to go beyond guidelines?

Understand challenges Discover workarounds © Wojtek Aleksander

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How ADD person reads notifications?

© Wojtek Aleksander

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How dyslexics see tables

© Wojtek Aleksander

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How people concentrate to read the web

© Wojtek Aleksander

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Going back and forth helps, but you can do better

< Back Next > Source: Tripadvisor © Wojtek Aleksander

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Consistent, yet a button appears dangerous

Open all rooms Close all rooms

© Wojtek Aleksander

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Anxiety and legally compliant buttons

Order with obligation to pay © Wojtek Aleksander

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Our design choices disable people

Our design choices disable people Sarah Winters © Wojtek Aleksander

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Good enough is not enough

Listen and learn so that you enable people with something more than “minimum viable” solutions © Wojtek Aleksander

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Thank you

Hey, look, a squirrel! https://www.linkedin.com/in/waleksander/ www.waleksander.design © Wojtek Aleksander