Baking Accessibility In Using Agile - Fronteers 2014
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The document is a presentation by Meri Williams on baking accessibility into agile processes. Some key points discussed include defining team values to include inclusivity and accessibility, arranging work as deliberate practice to improve accessibility skills, and defining what "done" means to ensure it incorporates accessibility testing and inclusive design. Anti-patterns that were discussed include rushing accessibility testing to the end or treating it as an optional extra cost. The overall message is that accessibility should be integrated into normal development practices and valued as highly as other quality attributes.
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- 1. BAKING IN ACCESSIBILITY WITH AGILE Fronteers Conf Amsterdam, October 2014 Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodomut/3667608102/ Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 3. I REALLY CARE ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY – BEING INCLUSIVE IS IMPORTANT Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 10. ACCESSIBILITY & INCLUSION ARE BROAD TOPICS THINK BEYOND SCREENREADERS & COLOUR BLINDNESS (BUT DON’T FORGET THEM!) Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 11. A US Survey Estimated… • 8.2% - difficulty lifting or grasping • 6.3% - cognitive, mental or emotional impairment • 3.3% - vision impairment • 3.1% - hearing impairment Source: http://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/accessibility-statistics Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 13. WE KNOW ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY, RIGHT? Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 14. • Progressive enhancement • Graceful degradation • Offline-first • Mobile-first • *-first • Contrast analyzer • Accessibility audits Best Good Practices Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 15. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT DESIGN AND TECH, IT’S ABOUT CONTENT TOO Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 16. “One measure of literacy is the percentage of adults who perform at four achievement levels: Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient. 13 percent of adults were at or above Proficient (indicating they possess the skills necessary to perform complex and challenging literacy activities) in 2003. Twenty-two percent of adults were Below Basic (indicating they possess no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills)” Source: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69 Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 19. IT’S ALSO ABOUT BROAD & INCLUSIVE USER RESEARCH & USABILITY TESTING Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 20. ANTI-PATTERN BUT HOW OFTEN DO WE TRY TO RUSH IT IN AT THE END? Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 24. PATTERN WRITE DOWN YOUR TEAM VALUES Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 26. http://xprogramming.com/articles/refactoring-not-on-the-backlog/ Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 29. PATTERN MAKE INCLUSIVITY & ACCESSIBILITY PART OF YOUR VALUES Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 31. PATTERN ARRANGE YOUR WORK AS DELIBERATE PRACTICE Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 35. WE’RE GOOD AT WHAT WE PRACTISE, PROVIDING WE CAN LEARN FROM IT Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 36. DELIBERATE PRACTICE • You must be motivated to attend to the task and exert effort to improve your performance. • The design of the task should take into account your pre-existing knowledge so that the task can be correctly understood after a brief period of instruction. • You should receive immediate informative feedback and knowledge of results of your performance. • You should repeatedly perform the same or similar tasks. Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 37. MODELS OF DELIBERATE PRACTICE • Sports Model – analogous to conditioning • Chess Model – what did the grand master do? • Music Model – chunking & mental rehearsal Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 38. IS THE WORK DESIGNED IN A WAY THAT MAKES IT EFFECTIVE DELIBERATE PRACTICE? Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 39. https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/8451589322/ Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 40. PRO TIP: REMEMBER TO TALK ABOUT WHETHER YOU’RE HOLDING TO YOUR TEAM VALUES IN YOUR RETROS https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/8002453131 Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 41. AS AN ASIDE… DO RETROSPECTIVES RATHER THAN POST MORTEMS FOR A POST MORTEM, FIRST SOMETHING HAS TO DIE Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 42. PATTERN ACCESSIBILITY TESTING KATAS Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 44. PATTERN DEFINE “DONE” APPROPRIATELY Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 45. HUMAN SKILL DEVELOPMENT Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 46. ANTI-PATTERN SAYING “THAT’LL COST YOU EXTRA” Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
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- 49. WE ARE PROFESSIONALS, DAMMIT YOU WOULDN’T CHARGE EXTRA FOR TESTING, WOULD YOU? WHY MAKE ACCESSIBILITY AN OPTIONAL, ADDED EXTRA?! Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 50. </rant> Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 51. Bake Good Practices In • Articulate team values • Value inclusivity & accessibility • Arrange your work as deliberate practice • Do accessibility testing katas • Define “done” appropriately & inclusively • Remember skills take time to become automatic Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
- 52. BE AWESOME BE INCLUSIVE Meri Williams, ChromeRose @Geek_Manager
Editor's Notes
- But of course you’d say that Meri – you’re a diversity statistic! Yes, I am in the minority in some ways, and that makes me very aware of being different. But I think this is a positive – it helps me to have empathy for people.
- But of course you’d say that Meri – you’re a diversity statistic! Yes, I am in the minority in some ways, and that makes me very aware of being different. But I think this is a positive – it helps me to have empathy for people.
- The average reading level of the average American is 7-8th grade: i.e. 14 year old
- We’d love to believe that our users are hanging out, doing extreme sports in between ice sculpting, but able to 100% focus on our website or app when they’re using it. NICE DREAM.
- So how do we bake it in?
- For instance, if you as a team adopt the boyscout rule (i.e. always leave it looking better than you found it) then it wouldn’t be OK for someone to check in code that doesn’t have tests, just because they found it that way (they’d be expected to improve it)
- There was a great article recently from Ron Jeffries about why refactoring shouldn’t be written up as separate stories – rather integrate dealing with technical debt into stories that touch those areas, else you will always end up deprioritising technical debt / refactoring stories and so digging yourself deeper into the hole.
- Learning to drive analogy