August 14, 2008

This week in A List Apart, there is a fantastic article by Lisa Herrod called Deafness and the User Experience. For all interested in making your sites as usable as possible, this should be required reading.

I have just assumed that for the Deaf, subtitles and captioning would be enough when visiting a website with audio or video -- and I never considered that there are things that need to be done on text based sites to provide a better, more understandable user experience. There are a lot of things, in general, I hadn't considered until now, like how sign language doesn't directly translate into what we speak or write. Lisa provides some great hints on what can be done to avoid language confusion and so much more.

Also, on her personal website, you can vote for her presentation on Aging, Cognition & Deafness: The Quirky Corners of Web Accessibility to be accepted for next year's SXSW.

By kim | Permalink | Comments (2)

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By Lisa on February 12, 2009 5:56 AM

hi Kim,

I'm a bit late but have just seen your post and wanted to say thanks for such a great write up. I'm glad you liked the article :)

Hope to see you at SxSW perhaps, where I'll be talking more about Deafness in a Core Conversation.

Cheers for now!

Lisa

By Bobcat on September 3, 2011 6:42 AM

I feel staisifed after reading that one.

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