Designing for Everyone: The Curb Cut Effect

HashiTalks: Africa Speaker - Victory Brown

Accessibility is not just designing to include a group of users with varying abilities. Instead, it extends to anyone who is experiencing a permanent, temporary, or situational disability. Designing with accessibility in mind means making sure everyone gets the goal for which they use your product.
Sometimes not addressing the needs of disabled users can have serious consequences.
Curb cuts were originally designed for people on wheelchairs to use, but it's presently used by persons with Temporal or situational disabilities. This is an example of Accessible design. In this talk I would be highlighting
- What Accessibility is
- The curb cut effect.
- Identifying Types of disabilities and how it affects the usage of products.
- Tips to Conducting user research on participants with disabilities.
- Steps to being more Inclusive and Accessible in your products/designs

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