[IxDA Discuss] Apparently, IxD is not obscure enough

[Johan Sjöstrand]

As a web guy, I'm coming from a frontend background slowly moving  
into the IxD field and my view is this,

- Accessibility should always be as good as it possibly can. (Why not?)
- Sometimes you have to deal with reality/nature of a project.  
(resources, competence, etc)

- When is the argument for it stronger?
-- Government sector - stronger (everyone must be able to use it,  
democracy and all that)
-- Service/business sector - weaker (yes, it would be lovely if our  
site could work for 100% of all visitors, but we want to focus on to  
give 90% of all visitors an exceptional experience simply because  
we'll make more money that way and if accessibility suffers, so be it.)
- There's always an excuse with cutting down on accessibility ;)

//Johan


On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:57 PM, <bjminihan at nc.rr.com>  
<bjminihan at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Fumble fingers today, but wanted to clarify...
>
> "...but I always assumed that interaction designER required  
> accessibility expertise."
>
> ---- bjminihan at nc.rr.com wrote:
>> 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).
>>>
>>> We need an Americans with Interaction Design That Doesn't Suck Act.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Andrew Hinton
>>> Vanguard User Experience Group
>>> personal: inkblurt.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Robert Hoekman, Jr." <robert at rhjr.net>
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>>> 08/23/2007 08:29 PM
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>>> [IxDA Discuss] Apparently, IxD is not obscure enough
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting little observation from a project I'm working on:
>>>
>>> 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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