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TranslationsDesigning for Inclusion
Inclusive design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and similar efforts address a broad range of issues in making technology available to and usable by all people whatever their abilities, age, economic situation, education, geographic location, language, etc. Accessibility focuses on people with disabilities — people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual impairments. The documents below explore some of the overlaps between inclusive design and web accessibility, and help managers, designers, developers, policy makers, researchers, and others optimize their efforts in these overlapping areas.
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web
- Introduces detailed examples of people with different disabilities using websites, applications, browsers, and authoring tools.
- Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users
- Introduces how the accessibility needs of older people with age-related impairments are similar to the accessibility needs of people with disabilities, and how existing international guidelines address them. Links to resources for developers, managers, researchers, advocates, and others, such as:
- Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
- Introduces the significant overlap between making a website accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities. Links to:
See also:
- Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility describes how project managers, designers, and developers can better understand accessibility issues and implement more effective accessibility solutions in their websites and web applications; browsers, media players, and assistive technologies; authoring tools such as content management systems (CMS), blog software, and WYSIWYG editors; standards and policies on accessibility; web technologies and technical specifications.
- Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization includes how the overlap with inclusive design impacts the return on investment (ROI) of accessibility efforts.