Vinnie Donati - Driving Organizational Accessibility
In this article we'll explore how Microsoft drives accessibility throughout its organization and we'll look closely at essential frameworks and practices that promote an inclusive culture. Through examining aspects like awareness building, strategic development, accessibility maturity modeling, and more, we aim to offer a guide for organizations starting their accessibility journey. The idea is to share what we've learned in the hope that you can take it, tweak it to fit your company's purpose, and nurture accessibility in a way that's not just a checkbox activity but genuinely integrated into your culture.
Shahtab Wahid - Design Systems Are Accessibility Delivery Vehicles
Design systems are infrastructure built for consumers—the designers and developers—working on applications. A successful one allows consumers in an organization to quickly scale design and development across applications, increase productivity, and establish consistency. Many consumers, however, are not prepared to build for accessibility. Couldn't an organization make building accessibility support for applications scalable, productive, and consistent? This article explores how a design system becomes an important vehicle to supporting accessibility.
Juanami Spencer - Accessibility Considerations for Mobile Applications
Considering accessibility is essential when creating mobile applications to ensure they are usable and enjoyable for as broad an audience as possible. Mobile accessibility has unique considerations compared with desktop experiences, but it provides immense value to those users who rely on mobile devices in their day-to-day activities. By keeping these considerations in mind, mobile product development teams can better support and enhance the lives of all users. This article explores some of the key accessibility considerations for a mobile application and highlights a few ways the Bloomberg Connects app supports accessibility in both the product and process.
Chris Fleizach, Jeffrey P. Bigham - System-class Accessibility
This article illustrates system-class accessibility with our work enabling iPhones to be used nonvisually using the VoiceOver screen reader. We reimagined touchscreen input for nonvisual use, introducing new gestures suitable for control of a screen reader, and for output we added support for synthesized speech and refreshable braille displays (hardware devices that output tactile braille characters). We added new accessibility APIs that applications could adopt and made our user interface frameworks include them by default. Finally, we added an accessibility service to bridge between these new inputs and outputs and the applications.
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