Copy of Why?
Why do we need this?
Who benefits from digital accessibility?
When people think of Digital Accessibility they are usually only thinking of people who have permanent and physically visible accessibility needs.
However this approach is very limiting and ignores those who have temporary reasons like illness, or situational changes such as a room being too loud to hear anything. It also requires users to identify themselves which excludes those who do not feel comfortable doing so, or who do not realise they have additional needs.
You can probably recall a time when you have identified with some of the examples below, even if you would not consider yourself to have accessibility needs.
Touch
Permanent
One arm
Temporary
Arm Injury
Situational
New baby
Hearing
Permanent
Deaf
Temporary
Ear infection
Situational
Busy place
Sight
Permanent
Blind
Temporary
Cataract
Situational
Distracted driver
Speech
Permanent
Non-verbal
Temporary
Laryngitis
Situational
Heavy accent
Accessibility profiles
Experience the ways different conditions can affect peoples ability to use your web pages with these 'user profiles'.
The profiles will simulate the effects using code.
These can sometime be overridden by any assistive technologies or accessibility settings on your own computer.
https://personas-prototype.herokuapp.com/