a11yTOConf2019

Time for some action! Fractions of Friction

Speaker: Bryce Johnson
Twitter: @brycej

I believe, you may disagree

Long term motivations for a11y accommodations built of equity alone re not sustainable

I personally believe the path through inclusive design is actually mainstream innovation.

https://www.microsoft.com/design/inclusive/

We have to recognize that we created a barrier when creating new controlers.

Matt May - Head of inclusive design at Adobe

OCAD Inclusive design

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Inclusive Design

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Innovation

It’s vital that game designers create contextual remapping. Tomb Raider, having facilitator (options for difficulty levels)

Hyperdot

Accessibility features of hyperdot are amazing, but they could have been better.

Halo 3

Watch this project https://twitter.com/superblindman https://twitter.com/sightlessKombat/status/1184936254846181376?s=20

What if we get audio description from the perspective of one the other characters?

Where can this go?

3 principles for Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

What’s the experience when you are in your home vs watching a video in a bus? (no headphones)

I’m not saying that striving for a11y is bad, I’m saying

Engage and listen to people (>1), doing exactly what one person says may steer you in the wrong direction.

Collaborate to identify unmet needs, it is not the responsibility of the community to articulate them.

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