Neurodiversity Workshop

  • 1 x 1.5-3 hour session via Zoom
  • Laptop required
  • Bespoke price on application
  • Max. 40 attendees

With 15% of the UK population estimated to be neurodivergent, it is essential that digital products, services and content are designed in a way that takes their needs into consideration. Unfortunately, WCAG doesn’t do this well. This workshop enables your designers and content authors to understand what they need to know.

In a 3 hour workshop, we will provide:

  • guidance on how you can adapt design & content for neurodiverse users, based on a set of guidelines created by Hassell Inclusion for the National Autistic Society, which are now being used by increasing numbers of organisations to up their game for neurodiversity
  • ample opportunity for discussion, so that attendees are able to explore the guidelines, not as rules, but as pathways to more inclusive design which can be adopted based on their existing products and their audiences
You will learn how to...

Build support for neurodiversity into your design and content

  • Neurodiversity in the context of inclusion and accessibility
  • The opportunities that come from going beyond WCAG
  • How the Neurodiversity Guidelines were created
  • Exploration of the top 10-20 guidelines, bespoked to your organisation and industry (to be agreed before the workshop)

Who is it for?

Product & Campaign Owners, Design and Creative Directors, Content Authors, Marketing Managers

Benefits

To you

  • Understand the opportunity that comes from developing design and content that takes into account neurodiverse users
  • Learn the impact that design and content decisions can have on neurodiverse users and where their “burnout” comes from
  • Understand the preferences of neurodiverse users across spectrums and explore how to implement solutions that work best for your brand and audience

To your organisation

  • Build design and content that takes into account the preferences of neurodiverse users
  • Understand how to balance different preferences and how they can be applied to the audiences for your digital products and communications
  • Gain from the innovative nature of "thinking differently" when considering the needs of neurodiverse users

Prerequisites

Skills

  • Some general knowledge of accessible design & content creation guidelines

Tech

  • Laptop, and you are welcome to bring along samples of what you are working on

Meet one of our trainersAbout Jonathan

Jonathan is one of the world's top digital usability & accessibility thought leaders. He has over 19 years’ experience in identifying new directions and challenges in digital accessibility, finding best practice process and technology solutions, authoring international standards and presenting best practices to conference audiences across the world. He has just delivered the new International Accessibility Standard ISO 30071-1, which is based on the British Accessibility Standards BS 8878 …

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