Design

Building Inclusively and Accessibly

As a designer, you also need to understand how your designs will be implemented. That means developing deep insight into how your product will be built.

As a UX designer, in some contexts, you might not write any code—you'll develop detailed processes and designs and hand them off to engineers. In other contexts, you might write a significant amount of code, bringing your designs to fruition largely by yourself. Regardless, if you're going to be working on a team, you'll need to set the vision and direction for how you'll design inclusively and build for usability—and work to ensure your design solutions are indeed achievable for a wide variety of users.

Here are some great resources to reference as you design and build products to ensure you're incorporating accessibility from the ground up:

• W3C provides a wide variety of information and resources (Links to an external site.) for building accessibly on the web.

  • The W3C's Web Contrast Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (Links to an external site.) are something you should reference throughout Labs to continuously audit your product's accessibility!

• This article by Smashing Magazine (Links to an external site.) compiles a long list of of ways to build accessible frontend components.