In an increasingly interconnected world, digital accessibility has emerged as a vital component of creating inclusive experiences for individuals with disabilities. Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) serves as an annual reminder of the importance of accessibility and aims to promote awareness and understanding among developers, designers, and decision-makers. In this blog post, we’ll explore the […]
Posts Tagged ‘inclusive design’
Perficient Mentioned in Forrester Report: Build the Business Case For Inclusive Design
A decade ago, the business case for acting in disability markets was unknown and unproven. That changed in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic drove people online and increased the business focus on digital accessibility. As a result, the need for organizations to provide inclusive products, services and experiences has grown significantly, with both employees and […]
Designing for Accessibility in Every Language
Creating inclusive and multilingual websites is complex but not without its benefits, especially to multilingual web users with disabilities. In Megan Jensen’s ‘kick off post’ on cultural inclusion she notes that “Undertaking a global multilingual website can be an intimidating and overwhelming project but it doesn’t have to be.” We’ve outlined specific ways to deliver […]
Perspectives on Achieving Digital Accessibility in the Healthcare Experience
Increasingly, topics like digital responsibility are entering the conversation around digital transformation. “This responsibility has evolved from primarily focusing on data privacy to now include accessibility, diversity, and inclusion as well. Really, it’s about being more proactive, less reactive. You want to take it from being aspirational to ground truth – how do we make […]
Designing for Diversity: Accessibility in the Product Development Lifecycle – Part 3 of 4
Product teams should be keen to understand how people interact with digital content and media. For one, web users’ interactions with website content changes over time. Two, it changes by situation. And three, it changes by ability. For example, what a web user can do in her 20’s, such as navigating web pages with a mouse, […]
Updated Guidance on Americans with Disability Act – Ensure Website Content is Accessible
Today 1 in 4 Americans hit virtual roadblocks accessing web content simply because their capabilities, adaptive strategies or their assistive technologies are not considered during the design of digital experiences such as websites. How many website users in the U.S. could potentially be affected? There are 307 million internet users and 276.8 million mobile internet users in […]
Start with Digital Accessibility, Benefit Everyone
Inclusive design is opening avenues of opportunity for design strategists and thinkers to imagine innovative solutions serving both mass market consumers and the market for people using assistive technologies (AT). Take for instance two prominent products with native assistive technology – iPhone’s VoiceOver and Android phones with Google’s TalkBack. Unlike most design solutions that start […]
Accessibility for All: The Benefits of Inclusive Design
In a recent presentation, John Seitz, UX architect at Perficient Digital, discussed the importance of inclusive design and how considering accessibility while designing and building your website has value for your company. Inclusive design is the creation of products or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. As […]