Accessibility Principles in UX Design by Hossein Sharafi

Hosted by IxDF Vancouver
Jan 10th, 2023
6:30pm - 8:00pm (UTC -08:00)
Online, https://meet.google.com/rhg-gbmv-xui, Vancouver, BC
12 IxDF Members (and some non-members) are attending
This is a free Local Group meetup
Attendance is free.
You don’t have to be a member to attend.
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Meetup Details

IxDF log and picture of multiple silhouettes demonstrating the some of the diversity in accessibility.

Join us for a new series this spring.

The accessibility principles that we will talk about :

  • What is a disability?

  • List of some potential disabilities and how context plays a role

  • UI solutions for each disability (our focus for this event is colourblindness and low vision)

  • Accessibility in research and user empathy

  • Familiarizing with WCAG standard

We will then jump into testing our favourite websites for accessibility and find some obvious and not-so-obvious examples of accessibility issues.

Takeaways:

  • Knowing what is accessibility, specifically as it relates to colour and vision.

  • How you can test for accessibility with no prior knowledge

  • Be able to have a conversation about the business and user benefits to advocate for vision accessibility.

Who is Hossein?

Hossein is a product designer with 10 years of experience in the digital product design industry. He is working as a product designer in Vancouver.

You can join in on the discussion about this and upcoming events in our Slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/ixdfvancouver/shared_invite/zt-1m5kvlnp2-qvPvMBCRMBCINrLbvf8a3w

Meetup Conversation

Below is the link to our new Slack space where you can experience rich discussions with others in the community before the event:

https://join.slack.com/t/ixdfvancouver/shared_invite/zt-1m5kvlnp2-qvPvMBCRMBCINrLbvf8a3w

This will not be another talking head webinar on accessibility!

Just finished the planning with Hossein for our event! Going to be a blast!

Anyone will be able to walk away from this presentation feeling confident to have a conversation about the benefits and how to test for vision accessibility related to low vision, colour blindness and more.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Reminder we are live at 6:30 pm, show up early to mingle.

We are now live! https://meet.google.com/rhg-gbmv-xui

Not able to attend tonights event? We missed you.

You can find the recording and slides for the presentation part of the event in #events channel of our Slack space.

Be sure to join us next time for all of the value!

Have an amazing day,

Adam.

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Local Leaders of IxDF Vancouver

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