Inclusive Design Patterns: Coding Accessibility Into Web Design - Hardcover

Heydon Pickering

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3945749433 ISBN 13: 9783945749432

Publisher: Smashing Magazine GmbH, 2016

Synopsis

Web accessibility isn't a feature, it's a quality. You can make an accessible interface or neglect to do so, but it's difficult to add accessibility to an interface that already exists. Not that this stops us trying: at great expense we attempt to take interfaces not made with people in mind and "make them accessible." This book looks at accessibility as a quality of effective interface design and puts you into the mindset of an inclusive designer. Thinking inclusively means appreciating that people have different abilities and needs, use different tools and experience changing circumstances. You never know who's going to come across your web page so you need to learn to anticipate and cater for diversity. Through the exploration of a set of example front-end design patterns, the book demonstrates how inclusive design needn't be any harder or more time consuming. It's just a different way of working: one which results in larger, happier audiences for your creative work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smashing Magazine GmbH
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3945749433
• ISBN 13: 9783945749432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308