Stéphanie Walter

A Designer’s Guide to Documenting Accessibility & User Interactions

https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/a-designers-guide-to-documenting-accessibility-user-interactions/

A lot of sites were not designed and developed with accessibility needs in mind. As designers, a lot of us think that “accessibility is the job of the developer team”. Accessibility becomes an afterthought for a lot of projects. Companies launch inaccessible tools, sites, services.

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My question is: why fix it, when you could design and build it right to start with?

As always with Stéphanie, this awesome resource is also available in French: Documenter l’accessibilité en phase de design !

• Older: WTF are all these config files for?
• Newer: How A Screen Reader User Surfs The Web

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