SXSW 2025

Ask and Learn - Include Disabled People in User Studies

Description:

You may know about digital inclusion - ensuring that people with disabilities can succeed on your web sites and applications. The question is - how to be sure that your interactive systems meet that goal? User studies that include people with disabilities provide you with insights that you won't get any other way. We bring people with disabilities into this workshop so you can learn what to expect from inclusive user testing and how to design and manage a study to capture the most useful data. We'll help you analyze and communicate your findings to your team to improve outcomes for all.


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Takeaways

  1. Considerations needed to design an inclusive usability study.
  2. How to recruit people with disabilities in user studies and how to accommodate them.
  3. Data from the use of assistive technology in user studies can be presented to design team to improve product accessibility.

Speakers

  • Sharron Rush, Usability Engineer, Knowbility
  • Ashley Abaragu, Program Manager AccessWorks, Knowbility

Organizer

Sharron Rush, Executive Director, Knowbility


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Workshop
  • Track: Design
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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