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What is the primary purpose of assistive technology?
What is the primary purpose of assistive technology?
What is the main goal of equity-focused design?
What is the main goal of equity-focused design?
What is the purpose of a screen reader?
What is the purpose of a screen reader?
What is digital literacy?
What is digital literacy?
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What is the purpose of alternative text?
What is the purpose of alternative text?
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What is iteration in design?
What is iteration in design?
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What is the primary goal of inclusive design?
What is the primary goal of inclusive design?
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What is the purpose of a call-to-action?
What is the purpose of a call-to-action?
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Study Notes
Accessibility and Inclusive Design
- Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities
- Inclusive design takes into account personal identifiers like ability, race, economic status, language, age, and gender
- Universal design aims to create one product for users with the widest range of abilities and in various situations
Assistive Technologies
- Assistive technology enhances learning, working, and daily living for people with disabilities
- Examples include switch devices, screen readers, speech to text software, and voice control
- Screen readers read aloud on-screen text, interactive elements, or alternative text
- Speech to text software allows users to compose text by speaking into their device
Design Principles
- User-centered design puts the user front-and-center
- Equity-focused design prioritizes groups that have been historically underrepresented or ignored
- Iteration involves revising the original design to create a new and improved version
Design Tools and Concepts
- Alternative text (alt text) helps translate visual content into a description for screen readers
- Call-to-action (CTA) is a visual prompt that tells the user to take action
- Color modification features increase the contrast of colors on a screen, such as high-contrast mode or dark mode
- Digital literacy refers to a user's level of ability in using digital information and technologies
- Framework creates the basic structure that focuses and supports the problem being solved
- Ideation involves generating a broad set of ideas on a given topic without judgment
- Insight is an observation that helps understand the user or their needs from a new perspective
- Platform refers to the medium that users experience the product on
- Responsive web design allows a website to change automatically depending on the device size
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Explore the concepts of accessibility, inclusive design, and universal design to create products and environments for diverse users. Learn about assistive technologies that aid people with disabilities.
