Designing and developing for Neurodivergent Mind
Speaker: Shell Little
Twitter: @ShellELittle
What’s Neurodivergent (ND)?
- A brain that functions different from dominant societal standards of “normal”
- $emoves negative connotation
- Examples:
- ADHD
- Autism
- Dyslexia
- Bipolar
- It’s not about being better or worse
- Because I have an invisible disability you don’t know that I hit my hand on the keyboard everyday with barriers
WCAG for cognitive disabilities
- Not a lot that’s specific for CD/ND, some stuff helps but nothing really specific
- Very complex, people are very different
- Non interference
- Level A & AA, are they enough?
- If we just do the bare minimum standard, we’re not doing enough
- Do you want to be in a building that meets minimum fire criteria?
Assistive Tech (AT)
- Dyslexia/dyscalulia
- Spell checker
- Voice to Text
- Copy / Paste
- Screen readers
- ADHD/ADD
- Read only mode
- Ad blocker
- Autocomplete
- Captions
Moving Content
- For example: Chat bot, pop ups, modals
- Not talking about Microinteractions…
- Things that move and don’t stop and things that jump out
- Moving ads are barriers
- WCAG 2.1 AAA
- Micro interactions are great for some users
Subtitles: Language processing
- Should not be paraphrasing - Should be exactly what’s being said on screen
Voice to Text: distraction
- Becomes something that fills that void when you can’t speak the language.
- Make sure form fields can use voice to text! (FORMS)
- Google docs voice to text feature
Display password: Working Memory
- Remember Me & Autocomplete
- “Show password”
Plugin
Notes
- If it makes the exchange of information better for all users, it’s probably make or break for users that are ND
- If you’re looking for users, Users with CD/ ND are on twitter and they’re loud