a11yTOConf2018

Server Low Vision and Seniors

Speaker: Sassy Outwater

Bring assistive technology training to seniors

We’ve learned interested things in assistive technology:

• We all think about assistive technology as aging

• Inclusive design is not inclusive if you can’t access it! Setup, maintenance, security, updating and upgrading are often access barriers

• When you become disabled at later age, there are more barriers. Emotionally coping becomes harder.
  • You have to process the trauma of disability onset in order to code well.

User Centered Accessibility Tests:

• I cannot access this
• I need help to access this
• This is accessible to me (now)

Assistive tech instruction for seniors to deal with the trauma of late onset disability and/or traumatic change in user experience….

Training for seniors:
- Don’t talk tech jargon
- Think deeply about each step of the process with whatever app you’re creating.

What’s a good website?
- Text size/style and layout - Color and contrast
- UI and navigation: streamlined and easy-to-remember navigation and location reference points
- Mouse and keyboard use
- Forms (save and continue later feature for forms)

Don’t make me hunt down my mouse in a mass of text

Slides - A11ytoConf talk:
Assistive technology instruction, UX and Aging: What Web Devs need to know

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