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Another thing to keep in mind is that the usability profession has been around a long time. Way before the web evolved into what it is now. Usability professionals are used to evaluating sites against heuristics and other best practice industry specific guidelines. We are used to researching, conducting cultural, ethnographic studies and contextual inquiries. We look at the usability of medical equipment, aircraft, remote controls and video recorders.., buy adipex online legally. but somehow assistive technology and people with disabilities is just that bit too hard.
We spend days and weeks trying to make sites cross platform and cross browser compatible. So why is it so difficult to incorporate "bug fixes" to improve code to make it more accessible. Are browsers more important than people.
"Accessibility reviews are too expensive" Buy adipex online legally, This is something I hear all the time. A common complaint and one that we really need to resolve is the difficulty in including accessibility within the UX process. Typically accessibility evaluations are still treated as a completely separate phase of work. If web teams are able to integrate it more effectively as part of the overall user experience strategy, it would be a lot easier to address budget constraints.
Share the load and design for diversity
Did you know, that if you look at the accessibility guidelines, it's possible to assign each of them to specific roles within a team. For example, some of the WCAG guidelines (Check out WebAIM's easy reading version) are not at all suited to the Front End Dev, and should be owned by the user experience designer, the Information Architect, the JS guy, the content writer or the Visual designer...
So in the end, we really all just need to learn a handful of additional (inclusive) Design Guidelines to make our websites more accessible, add accessibility characteristics to our personas and recruit more diverse users for our user testing sessions.
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You know the answers to these questions. It’s the elephant in the room.
People don’t consider accessibility as it doesn’t effect them. The client signing off doesn’t often have an issue hence they don’t worry about it. All they care is that the site works for them. Yes we are pig headed, ego centric.
Guidelines are worthless, no one follows them, and if they do they just fake the outcome and lie to their boss that it is all correct. If an external consultant says differently, they just discredit them, or even lie that the issues have been fixed. – Yes this does happen, 8/10 times…
I have tried all sorts of ways to get accessibility on the table. But it comes down to people are not even willing to pay for a review.
Often they are just scared of it. I have had kick off meetings with 1 IT guy, 3 lawyers, and a marketing manager – what does that tell you.
So this got me thinking. The issue is the review, the testing with participants, and the costs associated with it. And the Fear!
Now what if we could reduce these costs to nearly nothing for the first round of testing to get the issues on the board. Get the results of the review or testing in front of the client!
I find, as I’m sure you do that if the client sees the issue they will act on it. It’s at this point the Fear goes away and is replaced with – FIX IT!
Usability is the same.. no one tests, no one wants to pay for it.
We need a different model to get to business. Maybe there needs to be a proactive disability lobby group or something to alert business of the issues with their sites etc.
Good post. I’m becoming less convinced that complaints-based legislation actually helps than when we fought for the DDA.
It is, in effect, exclusive – making disability support something separate to good design, including web design.
I feel there’s something about the bicycling/helmet rule that relates here: how in Europe there are no helmet laws for cyclists because the whole ethos of road use is more inclusive of cyclists. In Australia, we legislate cyclists to wear helmets and remove the responsibility for all road users to be careful of cyclists. And we get more cyclists injured in road traffic.
How then DO we change the mindset to naturally be inclusive and accessible, so that we don’t even need checklist and complaints mechanisms?
How do we change the mindset so that we don’t need checklists?
I think checklists are good. If you think of them as design guidelines, it’s a sign of maturity and evolution that we have understanding of good and correct ways of designing things.
The problem is with how we perceive the guidelines.
We need to move from allocating them to one person (usually the FE dev) to assigning them to the most appropriate person on the team. Sometimes the team is 1, and that’s a pain. But when it’s a team of > 1 we can start to assign the “design guidelines” to the most suitably qualified person.
For e.g. there’s no reason why the Visual designer can’t be responsible for signing off on colour contrast. If you can use Photoshop, you can use a colour contrast analyser.
Following role specific guidelines means that people across the team are more aware in their day to day work. But most roles will only have to accommodate a handful of checkpoints, so it’s not too much to learn.
The guidelines are useful because they help us to avoid larger issues that would otherwise arise during user testing.
As for user testing, if we’re interviewing 8 people, why can’t 3 or 4 people who use AT be included in that group?
Interesting post Lisa.
I agree with the sentiment but I think Gary actually hit the nail on the head at the start of his comment. We user experience designers like to think we good at “I am not the user” but in reality I think humans find it very hard to imagine situations that they haven’t experienced. It’s why we can so strongly hate “others” who are different from us, like those from another country or religion: we can’t truly imagine being them (even though the difference between us is not as big as we think).
As UX designers we can imagine being frustrated by a page that is broken in IE6 because we’ve experienced it. But many of us haven’t experienced being stuck in a CAPTCHA loop because we’re doing things by sound rather than sight. As such, because we can’t easily relate emotionally, addressing this situation falls way down the priority list.
None of this is meant to condone the behaviour, just recognise a potential cause for it which may, in turn, help us find an answer. Dinners in the dark, being made to use a screen reader for a day, working with client-side scripting turned off – making people do all these things might make the having a disability *real* for those who don’t.
For deep and lasting change, however, I think these things need to happen when one is a child. I reckon all school aged children should have a great variety of experiences – not only simulating having a disability but also being part of other cultures, for example – to help increase the number of situations with which we can empathise. I believe there would be a lot fewer issues and a lot less discrimination, anger and hatred if we did so.
To finish I’d like to also ask a question about your last sentence in the comment above: “As for user testing, if we’re interviewing 8 people, why can’t 3 or 4 people who use AT be included in that group?”
Have you gotten research participants that use AT through a recruiter before? I’m interested to know how amenable and capable recruiters are in this regard. It certainly makes good sense to include users of AT in testing, for reasons of representativeness, just as we try to include different ages, sexes, socio-economic backgrounds and so on.
Many thanks for your thoughts and the chance to contribute,
Jessica
“Now what if we could reduce these costs to nearly nothing for the first round of testing to get the issues on the board. Get the results of the review or testing in front of the client!”
This made me think of all the new online services that offer test participants who test your website, like http://www.usertesting.com/ .
The online tests could offer a quick and easy way to make accessibility problems visible to clients — if there were a way to explicitly search for people with disabilities to test your site.
What do you think?
Hi Lisa
Sorry it’s taken this long to respond I’m having ‘blog issues’ :(
This is an interesting idea. I would be concerned that the clients would be happy to use the results as their accessibility review. From a professional perspective this would be problematic as there is such little control over the evaluation and it doesn’t allow you to observe and interview the participants as they use the site.
I guess it would fall into the ‘quick and dirty’ evaluation category.
I feel the problem is further up. Understandably, clients want to serve the greatest number of users for the least spend overall. Proportionally, how many users does inclusive design add, how much do they spend on your site and how much does it cost to get them? If its not cost effective for the business then its obviously not going to get a high priority.