Access for Everyone: Making Technology Inclusive | Los Angeles
About this class
Do you make products or direct teams that do? Do you participate in a business that markets via web and/or app? Do you want to expand your audience reach? Attend this workshop to expand your impact and market share!
Explore the major types of disabilities: mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, and how that affects relationships and experiences with tech. People value features that relate to their everyday experience. Learn best practices to ensure a complete tech experience for more people, and better serve the existing market to drive sales and raise brand thoughtfulness.
Takeaways
- Learn how to create personas with disability elements
- Fully utilize and learn the importance of media: video, pictures, animation
- Improve keyboard navigation and visible focus
- Discover how color contrast and navigational cues affect tech
- Dive into the separation of content and design
- Learn key ways to improve discovery, links, wayfinding, headings, labels to accommodate a wider audience
Prereqs & Preparation
Suggested reading prior to class: “A Web for Everyone, Designing Accessible User Experiences” by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery Required: bring a laptop or mobile device to class