Interactive UX: Building and Testing for Accessibility with Design Systems

Communication Design Quarterly Sep 2024

Interactive UX: Building and Testing for Accessibility with Design Systems

Adam Strantz

Abstract

Design systems provide a useful approach for TPC instructors looking to teach students to design and build accessible digital products. This experience report presents a teaching unit on using design systems to introduce accessibility to students. Using the Bootstrap design system, accessibility is threaded throughout the design process and provides a grounded approach for integrating accessible design into the UX classroom. Readers will come away with an outline of the teaching unit, accompanying materials for teaching that unit, and student examples user-tested for accessibility. The author concludes on a reflection on teaching the unit and offers advice for readers looking to implement a similar unit in their own courses.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2024-09-01
DOI: 10.1145/3658422.3658431
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Topics: multimodality disability studies multilingual writers

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