Laws and Standards
What is the UN Declaration of Human Rights?
Making the design marketable and widely useful.
What is Equitable Use?
Text and background color combination that supports color-blindness.
What is high color contrast?
In the planning phase, this activity usually informs a team on the accessibility gap to fill.
What is research?
Varying methods of assessment.
What is action and expression?
The country that where the ADA is in effect.
What is the United States?
What is Tolerance for Error?
A person who uses alternative interfaces with knobs or other tactile controls.
Who is a person with a visual impairment?
This step in design sometimes uses personas that incorporate disabilities to ensure accessibility.
What is usability or user experience?
Varying types and formats of content.
What is representation?
A piece of legislation that adopts a broad categorization of disability and reaffirms that people with disabilities must enjoy all human rights.
What is the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities?
Accommodate variations in hand and grip size.
What is Flexibility in Use?
Flashing lights and text warning messages support this user group.
Who are people with auditory disabilties?
When testing a product or service for accessibility what type of tools can be useful to test for a broad range of abilities?
What is functional or automated tests?
Providing options that give learners a choice.
What is engagement?
The ADA equivalent legislation in the United Kingdom.
What is the Equality Act of 2010?
Maximize "legibility" of essential information
What is Perceptible Information?
This technology is widely used today to making typing easier or even possible, but started off as assistive tech.
What is speech to text?
Taking an existing design and slowly working backwards to incorporate accessibility.
What is retrofitting?
Using a combination of images and words when introducing new terminology.
What is representation?
A regional piece of disability rights legislation, eh?!
Ontarians with Disabilities Act of 2001
Arrange information consistent with its importance.
What is Simple and Intuitive Use?
Who are people with mobility impairments?
The gold standard of ensuring accessibility is to test with this group of users.
Who are people with disabilities?
Provide opportunities for self-assessment and reflection.
What is engagement?