Foregrounding accessibility for user experience design

I am interested in creating generative tools and techniques for designing accessible user experiences for end users. As a user experience designer, I am working on embracing the web accessibility standards and guidelines and including them from the beginning of the User Experience (UX) design process. My projects are directed at facilitating design students and professionals to understand two things: that the broad concept of web accessibility is important, and how they can embed web accessibility into the UX design process at a very early stage. To do this, I used different media (website, posters and videos etc.) to create awareness and educate designers in an interesting, simple and engaging way. In this report, I will discuss the definition and role of accessible design, identify limitations in existing tools and methods, and demonstrate how future designers might research, prototype, analyze, and implement their designs for all users.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Design

Grantor

The University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Sandhu, Amanjot Kaur

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lee, Gloria

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Bias, Randolph

• Accessibility
• Web accessibility
• User experience design
• Universal design
• Web and mobile interfaces
• Design methods

Language dc:language.iso

en

Identifier

doi:10.15781/T2DP6Z

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/32283