Digital Accessibility Framework
taught by:
Rachael Bradley Montgomery
co-presented by:
Michael Cooper, J. Bern Jordan
Session Summary
The Digital Accessibility Framework is a top down look at the needs of people with disabilities within digital environments. This workshop will explain the framework, discuss ways it can guide research or standards, and gather feedback from participants to improve the model.
Description
A small group of accessibility experts have spent the last 18 months exploring ways to expand our collective understanding of digital accessibility. The resulting digital accessibility framework is designed to forecast new accessibility requirements in emerging technologies and to help to discover accessibility requirements for user groups with which we are less familiar such as hyperacusis, agraphia, and aphantasia. The result is a top down model of disability needs within digital environments. We are inviting public review and comment in order to improve this project.
Practical Skills
- Participants will have a chance to rethink how we identify and support digital accessibility.
- Participants will be able to contribute to the development of a top down model of accessibility needs in digital environments.
- Participants will understand how to continue contributing to this effort or share it with others.