A designer’s guide to documenting accessibility & user interactions
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… understanding not only the what, but the why, behind the design of a system is critical to creating an exceptional user experience. Defining and adhering to standards is how we create that understanding
Source: Marco Suarez
A day in the life of an accessibility consultant
Accessibility and the Business Group
- Functional business requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Logo & Branding administration
- Core features
- High-level functionality
- To be identified
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Business Analysis
Key deliverables
- To be identified
Tasks
- To be identified
- Advocate for organization’s commitment to accessibility standards
- Educate vendors of organization’s accessibility requirements
Sample job titles for this role
- Business analyst
- Client sponsor
- To be identified
Accessibility and the Development Group
- Create, code, and deliver the digital product
- Responsible for all user-facing and supporting systems, and related infrastructure selection, setup, and deployment
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Front-end Development
Key deliverables
- HTML files
- CSS files
- Client-side scripting
- JavaScript libraries and framework
- To be identified
Tasks
- Pattern libraries and prototypes
- Tempalte functionalities
- Semantically-rich HTML document structure and widgets
- Use and adapt frameworks and content management systems
- To be identified
Sample job titles for this role
- Front-end developer
- Web developer
- Full-stack developer
- User interface (UI) and/or User experience (UX) engineer
Note that the UI and/or UX roles also overlaps with the Design Group.
Back-end Development
Key deliverables
- To be identified
Sample job titles for this role
- Back-end developer
- Middleware developer
- Database architect
- Data engineer