What can give us warm fuzzy feelings, more customers, more money, and easier development? Inclusive Design, that’s what! It helps us think about all the kinds of people that could access our websites, not just people that are like us. It helps us accept the web as it is (messy, slow, and broken), not the web as we want it to be (crispy, fast, and perfect). Most importantly, it helps us understand that disability is a spectrum, not a binary.
In this accessibility-themed talk, we’ll learn how we can make our sites work for more humans, on more devices and browsers, under more conditions. We’ll look at practical exercises and tutorials we can use. We’ll see how we can find the small changes that will make a big difference. We’ll look at ways of testing our sites, of having better conversations about them, and will be giving and receiving high fives. :)
About the speakers
Nicola du Toit is a UX designer and usability specialist by day and a musician by night. She has a Masters degree specialising in human-computer interaction but is also left-handed, which means that usability (or a lack thereof) has always been a significant part of her life. She firmly believes that human-centered design can make the world a better place.
Nicola rants about bad UX (and other things) on Twitter as @sophdex and can be found on the interwebs at http://nicoladutoit.com.
