[nfbcs] Question About Accessibility of Design/Mockup/Wire Framing Tools

[William Grussenmeyer]

Ive taken too HCI  courses last year and I don't know of any
accessible mockup or wireframing tools.  I just made my mockups by
programming dummy user interfaces directly on IOS from scratch.
Bill Grussenmeyer

On 9/9/14, Cindy Bennett via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Cindy, and I just joined the list.
>
> I am starting a Ph.D. program in Human Centered Design at the
> University of Washington in a couple of weeks and am brainstorming
> what I want to research this year.
>
> Currently, I am interested in the state of design and mockup tools,
> and whether they provide adequate options to educate designers about
> features they can include to make their prototypes accessible, to
> hopefully encourage the ultimate design to be accessible.
>
> I know this is a CS list and not a designers list. I am very new to cs
> as my background is in psychology. But I am curious if any of you have
> successfully worked with a design or mockup tool, sometimes referred
> to as wire framing tools, etc.
>
> I am interested in downloading some and checking them out. I have
> heard of Axure and Balsamiq and just downloaded a free and open source
> tool called Pencil. At first glance, it doesn't seem to be that
> accessible, but I know that some experimenting could reap some
> results.
>
> I know that many design tools are inherently visual, and that may play
> to a lack of accessibility, but I wanted to poll some people who
> probably know a few things to see if you have any advice for me.
>
> I am not just interested in finding a moderately accessible design
> tool to work with myself, but in evaluating tools to learn what types
> of accessibility options they give designers. I will be conducting a
> research project where students in a design class will have to
> evaluate such aspects of a few design tools of their choice, and I
> plan on analyzing the qualitative data, but I would like to be as
> involved as I possibly can.
>
> If you have advice of other venues on which I can ask questions, or
> places that have pretty good documentation of accessibility of various
> programs (I have found documentation somewhat lacking so far) that
> would be great!
>
> Thanks so much for any feedback you can provide! I am looking forward
> to starting coding (another topic in itself).
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> --
> Cindy Bennett
> Graduate Student, University of Washington
> Human Centered Design and Engineering
>
> Treasurer of the Greater Seattle Chapter and of the National
> Federation of the Blind of Washington
> Affiliates of the National Federation of the Blind
>
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Bill