Accessibility Publications!
Every once in a while, the content gets a bit large for blog posts. So it is assimilated and published as a book (or a notion template). You can buy the existing books and find upcoming books on this page.
Mobile Accessibility Rituals
A book that can help your team achieve usability of a mobile app with assistive technologies like TalkBack and Voiceover. A simplified ritual, that can be followed by designers, developers, and testers that ensure that the app becomes usable, if not perfectly accessible.
The book includes chapters on:
Who should read this book?
What is accessibility
Why has it been an afterthought
How to tune the design systems
How to rework the content
How to build accessibility hygiene
How to ‘handover’
How to test accessibility
This is focused on achieving AA compliance for visual impairments, without learning the complicated success criteria of the WCAG!
WCAG 2.2: Designers’ Handbook
Every time I attended a webinar as a speaker or as a listener, I saw comments stating ‘WCAG is hard’ or ‘We need a simplified version of WCAG’ and so on. As a CPACC-certified designer, I decided to simplify those for designers.
A study found out that when the team considered accessibility right from the design stage, they saw a 67% drop in compliance issues found during testing.
The conventional WCAG quick reference is complicated and written as a series of success criteria. This document, however, focuses on prescriptive ways to ensure that you achieve said success criteria. I have been a designer for over a decade and have been contributing to the field of accessibility for the last five years. This document is the essence of all that I have learned and implemented.
This document covers the basics, and guides designers about "what needs to be done". The WCAG 2.2 database is filterable based on compliance levels, the disabilities they cater to, and which team is accountable for making a mobile app accessible. This way instead of going through the whole WCAG, the teams can focus on what they can control!
The Theory of Design systems
A collection of all the answers you need to get BEFORE you can start building your design system in your organization. This Notion document distills all my learnings from the time when I tried to build my design system, La Ruche from scratch back in 2020. This Notion document focuses on the "WHY" aspects of the design system rather than the "HOW" to build one.
The book includes chapters on:
What is a design system?
Why build from scratch when we already have a ton of resources available online?
When and when NOT to invest in a design system.
Before you start
Research
Measuring Success
Governance vs Flexibility
Handoff and Storybook
GTM strategy
Conclusion
Coming soon
Fixing your design system for accessibility
Mobile Accessibility Rituals: Vol2, focussed on Auditory, Cognitive, and Motor impairments.