User experience posts
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.
Inclusive user research: moderating sessions
All user research projects should include people with disabilities. Representing at least 15% of the world population, according to The World Bank, and potentially your target market, it doesn't make sense to exclude them. This post provides user researchers with tips on how to best moderate usability testing sessions where participants have a disability.
Browsing with assistive technology videos
Understanding how people with disabilities browse the web using assistive technologies (AT) is core to making an accessible and inclusive user experience. Our browsing with assistive technology videos series introduces commonly used software, who uses it, how it works, and ways people navigate content.
Browsing with speech recognition
In our fifth and final post from our browsing with assistive technology series, we discuss browsing with speech recognition.
You can also explore browsing with a desktop screen reader, browsing with a mobile screen reader, browsing with a keyboard, and browsing with screen magnification.
Browsing with screen magnification
In our fourth post from our browsing with assistive technology series, we discuss browsing with screen magnification.
You can also explore browsing with a desktop screen reader, browsing with a mobile screen reader, browsing with a keyboard, and browsing with speech recognition.