Giving a damn about accessibility

05/19/21 • 36 min

Digital accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring that everyone has equal access to information, functionality, and experience on digital platforms.

Many accessibility guides out there are either too prescriptive (making it seem like a checklist), too aspirational (painting a utopian picture that doesn’t drive action), or too charity-driven (driving the point that people with disabilities are to be pitied and painting the gaps as too enormous to ever be practically resolved).

This handbook is a little different.

To contribute to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we at the UX Collective have partnered with our most prolific accessibility writer, Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC, to bring a more candid take on the topic.

Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn.

Thank you for doing that.

Link to the guide: accessibility.uxdesign.cc

Digital accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring that everyone has equal access to information, functionality, and experience on digital platforms.

This handbook is a little different.

Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn.

Thank you for doing that.

Link to the guide: accessibility.uxdesign.cc

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The State of UX design in 2022

The past two years have felt like two decades — and the pandemic isn’t over yet.

From rethinking remote work policies to acknowledging the unintended impact of the products we build, designers in 2022 have a unique opportunity to rebuild our practice with a new perspective, incorporating all we’ve learned since the start of the pandemic.

Since we began publishing this yearly report eight years ago, we have challenged ourselves to discuss the design industry beyond visual and tech trends, taking an honest look at the things we need to improve as a field. After curating and sharing articles daily with more than 450k designers around the world, this year we wanted to focus on possibilities. This is the moment to recalibrate and reimagine what it means to be a designer, to design, and to be part of a design community.

Are you ready to rebuild?

Written by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga. Published by the UX Collective. Narrated by Laura Vandiver.