Inclusive User Experience Research in Accessibility

Date & Time

Friday, March 22, 2024 - 11:20 AM PDT  

Location

Platinum 1  

Description

This presentation highlights the importance of inclusion of people with disabilities in user experience research. The AURC employs the “consumer network model” of user engagement, which is ideal to both consumers with disabilities and the companies seeking to improve their products and services. For companies, we have pre-screened and validated participants that results in a high response rate and quicker turnaround time, which result in cost-efficient projects. For our consumers with disabilities, they engage in a community and generate a network of people with disabilities, test out new technology in the accessibility world, and provide direct feedback to companies to improve products for themselves and other people with disabilities. We will also discuss phases of product development that benefit from feedback from consumers with disabilities, such as defining accessibility barriers and user needs, ideating solutions to those problems, and testing prototypes and final products for accessibility. In order to gather this data researchers must know how to engaged disabled consumers to retrieve product feedback. These methods include surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, and usability studies. Each of these methods have strengths and weaknesses at gathering specific data. The Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC), which maintains a national network of over 1300 individuals with all types of disabilities, connects product developers with the disability community.

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Audience

• Information & Communications Technology
• Research & Development

Audience Level

Beginning  

Session Summary (Abstract)

Review the “network model” of user engagement for user experience (UX) research for accessibility and usability of consumer technology and other consumer projects with a focus on the Accessibility User Research Collective at Shepherd Center.  

Primary Topic

Research  

Secondary Topics

• Design
• Development
• Digital Accessibility
• Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

 

Session Type

General Track  

Presenter

• Delaney Cowart
  Shepherd Center

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