Accessibility for designer: where do I start? by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.
Stéphanie has gathered a goldmine of goodies:
Articles, resources, checklists, tools, plugins and books to design accessible products
Link tags: checklist
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Solid Start
A four-point checklist for inclusive design:
Are you a person that makes digital things for other people? Awesome—because this page is all about making things for people. There are four ways you can improve your creation for everybody. All four are testable, fixable and they improve usability for everybody.
Security Checklist
Exactly what it sounds like: a checklist of measures you can take to protect yourself.
Most of these require a certain level of tech-savviness, which is a real shame. On the other hand, some of them are entirely about awareness.
The Font Loading Checklist—zachleat.com
This checklist came in very handy during a performance-related workshop I was running today (I may have said the sentence “Always ask yourself What Would Zach Do?”).
- Start Important Font Downloads Earlier (Start a Web Font load)
- Prioritize Readable Text (Behavior while a Web Font is loading)
- Make Fonts Smaller (Reduce Web Font load time)
- Reduce Movement during Page Load (Behavior after a Web Font has loaded)
The first two are really straightforward to implement (with rel="preload" and font-display). The second two take more work (with subsetting and the font loading API).
Front-End Performance Checklist
A handy pre-launch go/no-go checklist to run through before your countdown.
Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components A11Y Expectations
A handy bunch of checklists from Dave for creating accessible components. Each component gets a card that lists the expectations for interaction.
Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines
Accessibility isn’t a checklist …but this checklist is a pretty damn good starting point. I really like that it’s organised by audience: designers, engineers, project managers, QA, and editorial. You can use this list as a starting point for creating your own—tick whichever items you want to include, and a handy copy/paste-able version will be generated for you.
Front-End Performance Checklist 2017
You can print out this PDF and then have the satisfaction of ticking off each item on the list as you build your website.
Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines
I’m not a fan of the checklist approach to accessibility, but this checklist of checklists makes for a handy starting point and it’s segmented by job role. Tick all the ones that apply to you, and this page will generate a list for you to copy and paste.
Front-End Style-Guides: Definition, Requirements, Component Checklist
You know that front-end pattern libraries have hit the mainstream when the Nielsen Norman Group get in on the action.
As ever, I’m not sure their sweeping generalisations can be applied to every project, but their checklist approach makes for a good starting point.