Accessibility Critiques

[savannanoh]

• Autism is not an intellectual disability, it is a developmental disorder. Please correct this harmful mistake.
• Neurodiversity is largely ignored in this chapter +1
• Talk about gaps and needs in innovations
• Discuss how tech companies view and approach accessibility
• Do truly universally accessible interfaces exist? What are some principles for making a universal design? +5
• What accessibility standards should be met before a product gets shipped?
• Talk about how the Genie system works
• How can designers advocate for accessibility?
• Why is it difficult to design for accessibility in industry?
• Go over the history of accessibility and technology
• Talk about how accessibility can be considered at various stages in product development
• Talk about accessibility regulation in commercial industries
• Talk about side effects that might limit usability to certain groups by designing for other groups and how this might affect people with multiple disabilities +1
• The chapter talks about adopting GUIs because of vision as a strong sense, but could it also be due to the ease of technologically implementing GUIs versus other types of interfaces?
• How do the people who need it actually get access to accessible technologies?
• Who teaches people how to use these accessible technologies?
• Why does this chapter cite a World Bank survey from 2004? Seems old
• Talk more about the effects of UI as exclusion
• explain why the current model of user interface is still used, and developers still use the same toolkits to make interfaces, even though they know about its exclusivity
• Include key actionable points for designing for accessibility
• Talk about the metaverse and accessibility and other UIs, like watches, earphones, headsets. Talk about assistive technology using different types of hardware, such as IoT, ubicomp, smart home devices +2
• Talk about advances in computer vision and how this can help people with visual impairments
• Talk about tradeoffs/tensions between accessibility and privacy +1
• Why are accessibility toolkits not more integrated into products/software? Why is the industry hesitant?
• Have concrete examples of how designing for accessibility is designing for all
• Talk about heuristic evaluations in this chapter
• Talk about neuroscience and how BCIs could help eliminate hand movements and other barriers altogether
• Have markers/headings for different disabilities
• Which is better–access technologies or universal interfaces? Should we aim to design universal interfaces or design interfaces that can effectively and seamlessly implement access technologies?
• How might these workaround technologies prevent progress towards universal accessibility?
• Grammar/typos:
  • "Other works hows work shows that emoji"
  • Some work shows that some of the the information needs in these descriptions are universal
  • Broken link to Section 508

[savannanoh]

World Bank stat is from 18 years ago. Student linked a more recent article (https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/08/16/CDC-1-in-4-adults-have-a-disability-that-impacts-daily-life/8421534423136/) that states that 1 in 4 adults have a disability that impacts daily life.

[savannanoh]

• Chapter doesn't define machine vision
• Provide example of an existing product that started out designed for one group and expanded to be more accessible over time.