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How can we enhance user experience across-the-board, improving people’s ability to engage, share, and take action? It starts with a real understanding of our users. All of them.<\/p>\n

Becoming familiar with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and gathering a bunch of helpful tips like the ones Joe detailed in Part 2<\/a>, is a great start. But the most essential foundation to build if you\u2019re going to design more inclusive and effective digital experiences is a comprehensive picture of exactly how a lack of accessibility affects people. That foundation gives us the knowledge and the purpose to be as innovative as we possibly can.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve found no better starting point than a smart, clear and unbelievably helpful post by Anne Gibson called \u201cAn Alphabet of Accessibility Issues.\u201d We\u2019re grateful to have found it, and thankful to Anne for allowing us to reference her work for you here.<\/p>\n

An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues<\/strong>
\nby Anne Gibson<\/p>\n

A<\/strong> is blind, and has been since birth. He\u2019s always used a screen reader, and always used a computer. He\u2019s a programmer, and he\u2019s better prepared to use the web than most of the others on this list.<\/em><\/p>\n

B<\/strong> fell down a hill while running to close his car windows in the rain, and fractured multiple fingers. He\u2019s trying to surf the web with his left hand and the keyboard.<\/em><\/p>\n

C<\/strong> has a blood cancer. She\u2019s been on chemo for a few months and, despite being an MD, is finding it harder and harder to remember things, read, or have a conversation. It\u2019s called chemo brain. She\u2019s frustrated because she\u2019s becoming more and more reliant on her smart phone for taking notes and keeping track of things at the same time that it\u2019s getting harder and harder for her to use.<\/em><\/p>\n

D<\/strong> is color blind. Most websites think of him, but most people making PowerPoint presentations or charts and graphs at work do not.<\/em><\/p>\n

E<\/strong> has Cystic Fibrosis, which causes him to spend two to three hours a day wrapped in respiratory therapy equipment that vibrates his chest and makes him cough. As an extension, it makes his arms and legs shake, so he sometimes prefers to use the keyboard or wait to do tasks that require a steady touch with a mouse. He also prefers his tablet over his laptop because he can take it anywhere more conveniently, and it\u2019s easier to clean germs off of.<\/em><\/p>\n

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