Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tigwell, Garreth W.
• Menzies, Rachel
• Flatla, David R.

Titel

Designing for Situational Visual Impairments: Supporting Early-Career Designers of Mobile Content

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2018, p.387-399

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mobile devices are a substantial part of our lives, supporting communication, work, and play. However, situational visual impairments (SVIs) can make completing tasks a challenge (e.g., browsing online in bright sunlight) and poorly designed content can cause or exacerbate SVIs. We surveyed 43 mobile content designers and ran four follow-on interviews to understand what designers currently do regarding SVIs, what resources they know of, and what is required to best support them in designing to reduce SVIs. Our findings highlight key similarities and differences between accessibility and designing to reduce SVIs. Our participants requested improved guidelines, education, and digital design tools for SVIs. To accommodate the growing number of people affected by SVIs and improve the inclusion of accessibility in design, we introduce recommendations that leverage the overlap between accessibility and SVIs to minimise the effort required in extending current design processes.