What Every Engineer Should Know about Digital Accessibility

ISBN-13: 9781032263854 / Angielski

Sarah Horton; David Sloan

Opis

Accessibility is a core quality of digital products, to be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. What Every Engineer Should Know about Digital Accessibility will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices.

Spis treści

Part 1: Foundations of Digital Accessibility 1. Introduction to Digital Accessibility  2. Disability and Digital Inclusion  3. User Accessibility Needs  4. Assistive Technology  5.  Core Attributes  6. Guiding Principles  7. Accessibility in Practice  Part 2: Methods for Engineering Digital Accessibility  8. Requirements Specification  9. Core Requirements  10. Design and Development  11. Testing and Evaluation  12. Documentation and Support  13. The Future of Digital Accessibility 

O autorze

Sarah Horton has over 20 years of experience helping organizations create “born accessible” technology. She is an author of books, articles, and papers on designing technology to improve quality of life. She is currently UX Strategy Lead at Harvard University, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, and Invited Expert with Teach Access and the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.

David Sloan is UX Practice Manager at TPGi, a specialist digital accessibility services provider, and works with a range of clients to help them create accessible digital user experiences and build accessibility capacity in a sustainable way. He became interested in digital accessibility at the end of the 1990s, as a postgraduate researcher at the University of Dundee, focusing on improving technology design for disabled and older people, and completed a Ph.D. on web accessibility in 2006. While at Dundee, he taught classes on human computer interaction and web design, co-founded the Digital Media Access Group, one of the world’s first accessibility consultancy groups, and drafted the university’s first accessibility policy.