TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Not a burden, a lift
Accessibility
Collaboration
1. act of working together; united labor, especially in literary or scientific work.
collaboration
Google ngram of collaboration, 1800-2000
collaborare
to work with
collaborateur
INDIVIDUAL
A body of poor students called collaborateurs… who assist the more wealthy but less advanced.
—H. C. ROBINSON Diary (1801)
1. an associate in labor, one who works with another
collaborateur
Romantic era
1800 — 1850, Europe
Individualism
self
others
Byronic hero
Blake
solitary genius
A body of poor students called collaborateurs… who assist the more wealthy but less advanced.
—H. C. ROBINSON Diary (1801)
Poor help rich
Rich benefit
Poor disadvanged
1. act of working together; united labor, especially in literary or scientific work.
collaboration
2. situation of people working with an enemy who has taken control of their country
Google ngram of collaboration, 1800-2000
INDIVIDUAL
At this moment, with France newly liberated and the witch-hunt for collaborators in full swing.
—GEORGE ORWELL Diary (1801)
Google ngram of collaboration, 1800-2000
collaborateur
to work with
the enemy—Axis
Japan's incredibly low crime rate
In 2013, Japan's gun homicide rate was 0.01 per 100,000 people,
while America's rate was 3.5 —
350 times the rate of Japan.
2016
CW: disabled death
1944
Google ngram of collaboration, 1800-2000
WWII
Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases
“life unworthy of life”
“useless eaters”
Threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people during his shift.
He wanted them to disappear.
My goal is a world in which the severely disabled can be euthanised, with their guardians' consent, if they are unable to live at home and be active in society."
"
Sound familiar?
Nothing—particularly in matters of injustice—is
ever a coincidence
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Not a burden, a lift
Accessibility
Ableism
a system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence, and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness, Eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism.
Talila TL Lewis
CW: Black and Native death
an intersectionality of hate
Ableism as the foundation of access
in the sense considered here refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities (Wikipedia)
accessibility
the practice of making your websites usable by as many people as possible. ... [it] also benefits other groups such as those using mobile devices, or those with slow network connections (MDN)
accessibility
We are not giving something to disabled people by creating access
We are simply not taking something away that we don’t take from most nondisabled people
Access is a right.
the concept of not only providing access to all, but removing intentional and systemic inaccess from any
accessibility
The inaccess is intentional.
It is a byproduct
of ableism.
While our individual decisions might not be intentionally harmful and inaccessible, the system that makes it easy for us to cause it absolutely is.
Individualism
self
others
Accessibility teams of one
MYTHS
One person cannot dismantle infrastructural inacess
Create axes of accessibility
METHODS
BUILD
CONTENT
DESIGN
BUILD
CONTENT
DESIGN
Writer
Designer
Engineer
Contextual
Visual
Semantic
Hierarchy means different things
Contextual
Visual
Semantic
BUILD
CONTENT
DESIGN
Writer
Designer
Engineer
Contextual
Visual
Semantic
Subhead
HEADLINE
Subhead
Copy
Copy
<h1>
<p>
<p>
Headline
Contextual
Semantic
Headline
Subhead
Copy
<h1>
<p>
<p>
Contextual
Semantic
Headline
Subhead
Copy
<h1>
<p>
<p>
BUILD
CONTENT
DESIGN
Writer
Designer
Engineer
ENG
UX WRITER
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
Start with collaboration
MYTHS
Collaboration
Add cooperation/
coordination
METHODS
Collaboration
Cooperation
Coordination
PLANNING
EXECUTING
SHARING
prefers-reduced-motion
usePrefersReducedMotion
Wrote a hook
(helper function)
executed
educated
excited
designed static exp
code comments/ design docs
shared/evangalised
a concept that reflects the extra development work that arises when easier-to-implement code is used in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution.
technical debt
a concept that reflects intentionally including time for foundational development work that may take longer now, but pays interest long term
technical savings
Accessibility is a nice to have/no budget
MYTHS
Make accessibility a success criterion
METHODS
Don’t let deadlines dictate done.
Not knowing how to "end" is not a reason not to start.
Challenge the notion of done.
Ideals of perfectionism
Ideals of perfectionism are concepts of white supremacy.
Creating access is never over.
Who are we missing?
How do we serve them better?
How are we sharing what we learned?
Creating true access requires dismantling ableism within ourselves and our systems.
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Systems
Systems
Systems
Systems
Systems
Systems
of
of
of
of
of
of
Building
Socially-Inclusive Design Systems
TATIANA MAC
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
Banal
B
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0
nary
1
How
Privilege
Defines
Performance
TATIANA MAC
@TatianaTMac
When we work together
We can lift together
Accessibility: Not a burden, a lift
By Tatiana Mac
Accessibility: Not a burden, a lift
The lack of accessibility in our industry is becoming worse with a dire impact. Disabled creators and users are systemically excluded from the digital world, which was conceived to provide access to knowledge. At our worse, we completely invalidate and ignore disabled folks and accessibility altogether. At “best," accessibility practices are often siloed to a few key (nondisabled) instigators within even the largest organisations. We can turn this around. We’ll talk day-to-day tactics for how to make accessibility a cross-functional responsibility, how to get “buy in” for the work, and how to make meaningful, systemic and incremental change on your teams.
