Accessibility & Inclusive Design in the Production Lifecycle
Léonie Watson, TetraLogical
Resilience
Is an ability to recover from or adjust easily to change
Inclusive design
Is designing for human resilience
Embedding inclusive design
Is designing for organisational resilience
Attitude
Make it a core design principle
Policy
Set out a clear policy on inclusive design
Reality
Make it a reality not a fantasy
Responsibility
Give people responsibility and authority to make it happen
Skills
Identify and close skills gaps across teams
Tools
Decide whether to use monitoring and testing tools
Champions
Establish a network of inclusive design champions
Requirements
Make inclusive design a requirement for every project
Research
Include people with permanent, temporary and situational disabilities in user research
User stories
Make sure the needs of those people are reflected in user stories
Acceptance criteria
Decide what acceptance looks like for each of those user stories
Project management
Make time for inclusive design in the schedule
Notations
Encourage teams to add inclusive design notations and comments to their work
Definition of done
Add inclusive design criteria to the definition of "done"
Blockers
Be prepared to block on inclusive design
Recognition
Recognise inclusive design at every level
Invest
In an efficient, scalable and sustainable strategy that pays for itself
Thank you!
Léonie Watson, TetraLogical
