🌻 Accessibility Guidelines and Design Patterns. All guidelines I’ve put together on LinkedIn — from ADHD and designing for children to cognitive load and aging population. Now updated, all in one single post, to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day ↓
✤ Accessibility and Inclusive Design
ADHD: https://lnkd.in/dZtiH5pQ
Aging Population: https://lnkd.in/d8DY_tFg
Alzheimer: https://lnkd.in/evHj7jZ9
Autism: https://lnkd.in/ekujAteM
Children: https://lnkd.in/eh3fv-US
Cognitive Load: https://lnkd.in/eiVHhwjJ
Colorblindness: https://lnkd.in/eqjvPgSZ
Color contrast: https://lnkd.in/ecWS4ue7
Deafness: https://lnkd.in/epeRUMmc
Dementia: https://lnkd.in/dccfi4Yu
Design Systems: https://lnkd.in/dxU52JVJ
Dyscalculia: https://lnkd.in/e8wyMWp4
Dyslexia: https://lnkd.in/ei9mncR7
Edge cases: https://lnkd.in/eeyrpp7m
Legibility: https://lnkd.in/eEarXzD8
Left-Handed Users: https://lnkd.in/eWyzRdy5
LGBTQI: https://lnkd.in/eumCiYrk
Mental Health: https://lnkd.in/d5ijbZrX
Names: https://lnkd.in/dxmBRpJG
Neurodiversity: https://lnkd.in/dcSiAP5g
Neurodivergent: https://lnkd.in/eV-FRBHa
Phone numbers: https://lnkd.in/duGdsrEx
Screen readers: https://lnkd.in/eaviMFkf
Stress: https://lnkd.in/ew_65Km4
Sustainability: https://lnkd.in/etGZbrk9
Target sizes: https://lnkd.in/ePuc3mbJ
Teenagers: https://lnkd.in/et3XbUTJ
Time zones: https://lnkd.in/dcH27neC
Toolkits: https://lnkd.in/ekq2q7Zb
Trauma: https://lnkd.in/eVfS-meA
Voice: https://lnkd.in/e5KYCuse
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Accessible design doesn’t happen by accident. It requires deliberate, intentional efforts to design and build with accessibility, and to retain and evolve accessibility over time. Some companies understand the reasons why accessibility matters, but not necessarily how to prioritize accessibility work, nor how to integrate it into company’s existing ways of working.
And still, many companies document accessibility “away” — with ad-hoc audits, “just enough” reporting to meet compliance requirements, or a mandatory WCAG AA checklist to tick off boxes at the very end of the design process.
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One strategy that has helped me over the years is to focus on making accessibility challenges more visible and relatable to people who never experienced them first-hand. Simply by showing how actual people use our products, where they struggle and what their challenges are.
People often don’t respond to risks and regulations and compliance because they can’t relate to them. But once they see how people live and go about daily life and how the product fails them just when they need it the most, that’s where sometimes change happens.
And: always involve people with temporary, permanent or situational disabilities into the design process. “Nothing about us without us”: you can't design *for* people without designing *with* them.
And huge kudos to wonderful people contributing to a topic that is often forgotten, overlooked or documented away. 💚
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