UX & Visual Designers

  • 2 x 3.5 hour sessions via Zoom
  • Laptop required
  • Bespoke price on application
  • Max. 15 students

Introduces accessible design checkpoints in WCAG 2.1 AA and enables designers to know how to apply them creatively in their design work, rather than just learning them in isolation.

A practical workshop where we spend time grappling with what to do in situations where it’s most challenging to achieve the design aesthetic you want and also make websites and mobile apps accessible – how to apply checkpoints to ensure they don’t cause ‘lowest common denominator’ design.

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You will learn how to...

Apply inclusive design in a best-practice way, by:

  • Understanding the range of people that benefit from accessible design
  • Getting an overview of how inclusive design features in international standards: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1
  • Discussing the key challenges of accessible UX / UI design
  • Reviewing each of the WCAG 2.1 checkpoints that impact on design, including practical accessibility critique and discussion of designs
  • Learning how to apply accessibility requirements creatively in design work to retain a great customer experience
  • Learning how to use accessibility tools and checklists to test accessibility in your own work

Who is it for?

Suitable for User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) and Visual Designers, and those who have an interest in inclusive design

Benefits

To you

  • Gaining confidence that you know how to design digital products which are accessible as well as beautiful
  • Understand how to balance accessibility and brand requirements
  • Understand how to document accessibility requirements in your design documentation so that developers code them correctly for accessibility

To your organisation

  • By putting accessibility early in design, it increases your ability to give all users a good digital experience and reduces the cost of rework and testing
  • Ability to identify potential accessibility problems in design so that they can be fixed before developers code them
  • Knowing where to use personalisation in inclusive design in order to deliver accessibility requirements

Prerequisites

Skills

  • General UX and visual design knowledge

Tech

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

Meet one of our trainersAbout Yacoob

Yacoob has over 15 year’s experience of improving inclusion in government and corporate environments. Backed with his Master’s degree in Digital Inclusion he is passionate about all things inclusive and accessible, with a particular interest in education and customer journeys. He loves bringing people together to collaborate on balancing business and customer needs to ensure a practical, impactful and efficient way forwards, especially through Live and Snapshot audits and PDF training.

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