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My experience has been that the thought process involved in creating accessible designs results in systems that are easier to use for people without disabilitie
by GabrielF00 11y ago
My experience has been that the thought process involved in creating accessible designs results in systems that are easier to use for people without disabilities. For example, curb cuts were designed to benefit people in wheelchairs, but they make life easier for delivery people with hand trucks, people with strollers, etc.
It's the same for UX design. Features designed to increase accessibility, such as better contrast, reasonably large fonts, etc. seem to make software more usable period.
- adiabatty 11y agoSometimes, but not always. While I'm a fan of larger fonts and click targets, a lot of people like to have these thugs be a lot smaller so they can have more information-dense screens. …which itself is an accessibility issue; if you have good eyes but rotten limbs, you'll want to increase the information density of your screens so you have to scroll as little as possible. Most voice recognition systems accept one or more of: - space - page down - scroll down one page Now imagine needing to say that every time you want to page down; you'd turn the font size down as low as possible, sit closer to your monitor, and turn it 90° so it's taller than it is wider. It's nice when accessible designs provide benefits to people who don't _need_ them, but sometimes a design that's better for people with one class of disabilities will end up being a worse design for normal people or differently disabled people.
- jacalata 11y agoSure, but if you do the work to make it user resizable then you help both groups.