COMP 3008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Universal Design, Nuance Communications, Section 508 Amendment To The Rehabilitation Act Of 1973
26 Oct 2018
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Comp (cid:1007)008 le(cid:272)ture (cid:1006)(cid:1007): a(cid:272)(cid:272)essi(cid:271)ility: what is accessibility, accessibility and usability are closely related, as they both improve satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency of users. Including legal sense (cannot deny people employment as this would violate their rights: demographic: aging population, design: universality whether it is possible to design in an abstract way and then build in different ways. Ex. using a dominant colour like red to get the users attention to a particular item. This is starting point but eventually will make steps towards: accessibility impact being required, proposition: design for accessibility improves design in many unexpected beneficial ways, ex. Jaws: job access with speech (windows: move mouse around screen, where mouse lands it reads the text, people tend to increase the speed of speech, moving around quickly to look for something. Increased ubiquity (availability) of computers, web: services available via computers, ex. Images: navigation, tables, forms, divisions, stylesheets, w3c accessibility guidelines, 1.
