Designing for cognitive disabilities by Ruth Ellison at UX Australia 2011 on 25 August 2011 @RuthEllison From @StamfordUX Image credit: My Brain by My Name is Rom ™ from http://www.flickr.com/photos/romsimplicio/2615636782/ Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
Presented at UX Australia 2011, Sydney, as part of the 10 minute series. This talk looks at inclusive and universal design tips for cognitive disabilities.
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Designing for cognitive disabilities
by Ruth Ellisonat UX Australia 2011
on 25 August 2011
@RuthEllison
From @StamfordUX
Image credit: My Brain by My Name is Rom ™ from http://www.flickr.com/photos/romsimplicio/2615636782/ Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic license
Hi, I’m Ruth
User experience designer
Love gadgets
Chocolate appreciator
Skeptic and critical thinker
Work at Stamford Interactive
Love robotsCaricature by the talented Hayley Welsh
Live in Canberra
What are cognitive disabilities?
...any sort of cognitive disorder that impairs understanding and functioning.
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the right foot4. Step forward and to the right with your right foot5. Left foot close to right foot
In many cases, the techniques for making web content more accessible to people with cognitive disabilities are nothing more than techniques for effective communication.
Useful resourcesClear Helper: Web Accessibility for People with Intellectual / Cognitive Disabilities http://clearhelper.wordpress.com/
Cognitive Disabilities Part 1: We Still Know Too Little, and We Do Even Less, Bohman, Paul. 2004. from http://webaim.org/articles/cognitive/cognitive_too_little/
Cognitive Disabilities and the Web: Where Accessibility and Usability Meet? By Mariger, Heather. from http://ncdae.org/tools/cognitive/
What Problems Do People with Disabilities Have? and Why?, from http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/software_guidelines/software.pcs/disabil.htm
How People with Disabilities Use the Web by W3C, from http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/Overview.html
The Forgotten People: Designing for Cognitive Disability, from http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200607/the-forgotten-people-designing-for-cognitive-disability/
An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties, Hudson, Roger., Weakley, R. And Firminger, P. from http://www.usability.com.au/resources/cognitive.cfm
Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility, from http://webaim.org/articles/evaluatingcognitive/