Best Practices for Development

• accessibility as design principle
• universal design
• development cycle
• testing
• communicating

Design Principle

• Accessibility is a design principle, not a feature set
• Accessible Design as part of Universal Design
• User Research & Design Principles
  • Requirements gathering
  • Designing and conducting inclusive user studies
  • User feedback (beta, post-launch, etc)
  • Universal design (global audience) incorporating personalization (considerations of the individual)

Development Cycle Integration

• Leadership
• Product Manager
• Design & Research
• Engineering & implementation
• QA (quality assurance)

Validation and user testing

(i.e., testing in screen readers & zoom)

Communication out

(i.e., documentation, marketing and customer support)

Communicating up

(i.e., ROI, impact analysis)

Experiences

• Examples from companies/work groups on how they’ve integrated accessibility into their processes
• Empathy exercise around a challenging interaction

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