Designing for Global Accessibility
Kiln Design · 1 min read
Two researchers suggest checking our assumptions about who is on the other side of the screen
Most of our users don't share our language, our network speed or our hands.
We spent a month testing in six countries with people who use screen readers, switch controls and very old phones.
Six countries, one month
The fixes were rarely glamorous: bigger targets, fewer animations, captions everywhere.
Accessibility is just usability with the assumptions removed.
Unglamorous fixes
Every one of them made the product better for everyone else too.
Contributors
The Kiln Design team