[IxDA Discuss] Apparently, IxD is not obscure enough

[bjminihan at nc.rr.com]

I find this discussion interesting, because I haven't had the good fortune to have a dedicated accessibility-expert on projects.  Perhaps it's just the way I learned UCD methods and design (by fire, primarily, with some very good mentors and well-timed reading), but I always assumed that interaction design required accessibility expertise.  Am I completely off-base in thinking that an interactive design must be interactive for as many people as possible, including visually, auditory, motor or situationally impaired (when the target audience naturally includes such groups)?


 - Bryan
http://www.bryanminihan.com

---- andrew_hinton at vanguard.com wrote: 
> I also suspect that the Accessibility person comes with some 
> built-in gravitas -- to disagree with him/her would sound like you 
> want to harm the disabled. Plus, dismissing them would run the 
> risk of legal entanglement (if this is in the US with the Americans with 
> Disabilities Act). 
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> We need an Americans with Interaction Design That Doesn't Suck Act. 
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> Andrew Hinton
> Vanguard User Experience Group
> personal: inkblurt.com
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> "Robert Hoekman, Jr." <robert at rhjr.net> 
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> Interesting little observation from a project I'm working on:
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> I, as an interaction designer, make recommendations and *everyone* has an
> opinion. This is normal, of course, and I expect it. But my accessibility
> expert makes recommendations and shoots down ideas left and right, and
> everyone just bows down and concedes.
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 - Bryan
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