From the course: Accessibility for Managers and Non-Designers

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Common-sense testing with an inclusive mindset

Common-sense testing with an inclusive mindset

From the course: Accessibility for Managers and Non-Designers

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Common-sense testing with an inclusive mindset

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- [Instructor] If you are managing a design project, then I'll bet you have an understanding of the basic principles of communication design. Leverage that experience. To put things in more basic terms, accessible design is an application of basic communication design principles, the POUR acronym, P O U R; Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust, is a concentrated checklist for making sure that basic communication design principles have been applied to any project. As a project manager, a stakeholder, an art director or anyone responsible for all or part of the process of creating digital designs, you have a communication design sensibility. So again, leverage it. Develop an eye for spotting designs that might be inaccessible and find ways to give them a quick test. Here I'm looking at the webpage for an exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York City and wondering how this audio narration is going to work for…

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