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Incorporating Social Factors in Accessible Design

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Kristen Shinohara,

Jacob O. Wobbrock,

Wanda PrattAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 149 - 160

https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3236346

Published: 08 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Personal technologies are rarely designed to be accessible to disabled people, partly due to the perceived challenge of including disability in design. Through design workshops, we addressed this challenge by infusing user-centered design activities with Design for Social Accessibility-a perspective emphasizing social aspects of accessibility-to investigate how professional designers can leverage social factors to include accessibility in design. We focused on how professional designers incorporated Design for Social Accessibility's three tenets: (1) to work with users with and without visual impairments; (2) to consider social and functional factors; (3) to employ tools-a framework and method cards-to raise awareness and prompt reflection on social aspects toward accessible design. We then interviewed designers about their workshop experiences. We found DSA to be an effective set of tools and strategies incorporating social/functional and non/disabled perspectives that helped designers create accessible design.

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Incorporating Social Factors in Accessible Design
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility design and evaluation methods
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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DOI:10.1145/3234695

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