Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes

Jenya Edelberg; Gustav Verhulsdonck

doi:10.1145/3472714.3473663

Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes

Jenya Edelberg, Gustav Verhulsdonck

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Abstract

In scholarly discussions, industry practices and how they address accessibility are often not emphasized. As accessibility principles are not fully covered by usability heuristics, web accessibility standards, or assistive technologies and browser plug-ins, it is important to address accessibility in industry website development. This article discusses how accessibility is addressed during the industry process of developing websites for clients. We do this in order to raise issues for differently abled users (such as low-vision users) and to introduce a tentative framework for designers in industry to consider such issues in their work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
Subtitle of host publication	Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	343-346
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450386289
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473663
State	Published - Oct 12 2021
Event	39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Oct 12 2021 → Oct 14 2021

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Name	Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021

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Conference	39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/12/21 → 10/14/21

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Keywords Accessibility
User Experience Design
Web development

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Edelberg, J., & Verhulsdonck, G. (2021). Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021 (pp. 343-346). (Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473663

Edelberg, Jenya ; Verhulsdonck, Gustav. / Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy : Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes. Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. pp. 343-346 (Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021).

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Edelberg, J & Verhulsdonck, G 2021, Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes. in Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021. Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 343-346, 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 10/12/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473663

Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes. / Edelberg, Jenya; Verhulsdonck, Gustav.
Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 343-346 (Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Edelberg J, Verhulsdonck G. Addressing Accessibility as Advocacy: Special Needs Users in Industry Web Development Processes. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2021. p. 343-346. (Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021). doi: 10.1145/3472714.3473663

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