Examples of good & poor assessibility designs

Coleman Yee (a blogger in Singapore) posted this thoughtful piece on the importance of involving intended users when implementing accessibility features and designs. In his post, he points out specific instances of how some designs merely incorporated the accessibility feature without having proper considerations of how the feature would actually be used:

In design for users, user testing is often crucial, especially when the designer isn’t already very experienced in the area, or when comprehensive guidelines or heuristics aren’t available. A couple of years ago, I followed some wheelchair-bound people around critique the accessibility of some new buildings that were designed with accessibility in mind.

Photos from: Coleman Yee. Read the full post here.

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