Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind

© Regine M. Gilbert 2019

R. M. GilbertInclusive Design for a Digital Worldhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5016-7_3

3. If It’s Annoying, It’s Probably not Accessible

Regine M. Gilbert¹ 

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New York, NY, USA

 

One of the best things in life is the ability to never stop learning.

Learning more and more about accessibility has brought about the knowledge that if something is annoying, it’s probably not accessible. An annoyance is something that causes some irritation in some sort of way. Picture this scenario.

Imagine being at a conference and sitting in a room that housed 1100 chairs (Figure 3-1 shows the back of the conference room). You are a little late to the start of the presentation and you decide to sit in the very back of the room.

There are two ...