User experience posts
Meet Josh: a sportsman who has spinal muscular atrophy
Meet Josh, a sportsman who has spinal muscular atrophy. Between training for the Paralympics and his busy day job, Josh talks to us about how navigating the web is constantly evolving, how he adapts to various assistive technologies, and his hopes and concerns for artificial intelligence (AI).
Meet Jonathan: a photographer who has ADHD
Meet Jonathan, the photographer behind the portraits of all our models (links to their interviews below) for the TetraLogical website.
Jonathan has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and shares his experience browsing the web, including how distractions like cookies, pop-ups, and social media affect him.
Meet Andre: a music producer and blind screen reader user
Meet Andre, a music producer and blind screen reader user who is not afraid to take his custom elsewhere if your site is not accessible.
Andre shares his experience using the web including his love of headings and consistent design to help him navigate, and his dislike of accessibility overlays and poorly implemented page updates using live regions.
Foundations: types of disability
This post offers an overview of various disability types across four groups: seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking, and provides a brief exploration of what disability is, highlighting how permanent, temporary, or situational disabilities can affect us all.
Meet Lauren: a film editor who has ADHD
Meet Lauren, a film editor moving into the world of producing and production management who has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Lauren shares what helps her stay focused when browsing the web and why white backgrounds and autoplaying video are not helpful for her.
Meet Steve: a photographer who is deaf and low vision
Meet Steve, a photographer from London who is deaf and low vision. He is an ex-civil servant who then went on to do freelance technology journalism and travelled the world.
Steve shares his experience of the web including increasing font size and using good colour contrast as well as the joys of using his Bluetooth hearing aids.
Meet Hasmukh: a blind cricketer and screen reader user
Meet Hasmukh, a talented blind cricketer with lots of patience and determination.
Hasmukh shares his experience using the web with a screen reader and highlights the importance of accessible emails, forms, language, and prioritising content within a web page.
Inclusive user research: recruiting participants
One of the most important and challenging aspects of running inclusive user research is finding participants with a wide range of access needs, who can provide feedback on different features of your products. Our third post from the Inclusive user research series answers key questions around recruitment.
Research insight: accessibility of images
When conducting usability testing with disabled users, we observed how well images performed from both a visual and non-visual perspective when it came to finding and understanding content.
Inclusive user research: analysing findings
In inclusive user research: moderating sessions we covered the skills and techniques that help researchers run sessions smoothly and collect valuable insights. The second post in our Inclusive user research series discusses some of the unique challenges posed by findings from sessions run with people with disabilities, and advice on how to analyse them.