Closing the Competitive Productivity Gap
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" Much is known about designing usable accessibility into software, but there remain substantial and long-standing fundamental gaps in our knowledge – including how to provide usable access to static text. " Brief abstract One of the ultimate goals of the many electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessibility standards is to enable full employment of people with disabilities. Yet, these standards are not and can not reasonably be expected to ensure the level of usability for people with disabilities (usable access) that will enable them to be competitively productive. That level of usability can be attained by incorporating people with disabilities into user centered design practices, however it is unreasonable to expect that will ever be done for the majority of E&IT solutions. This paper posits there is a middle ground that will solve 90% of the problem with 10% of the effort by mimicking another common software engineering practice that could be called design by convention or heuristic UI design. This is the practice of piecing together commonly recognized, and sometimes proven, design patterns or conventions. This paper summarizes some of the known conventions that are particularly beneficial to usable access and addresses a major area of concern where there is no generally applicable engineered solution – static and other non-editable text. Lack of usable access to static text for screen reader users is a major gap that spans all platforms, accessibility application programming interfaces (APIs), and standards.
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