Generate Questions for 2023-04-26: Ciara(Kiki) Salmon

[nguyen-jenn]

Overview

We need to create a list of questions for our guest speaker Ciara(Kiki) Salmon attending on 2023-04-26.

Action Items

• Send issue to UI/UX Slack channel and ask UI/UX people to write their questions in the comments.
• Collate the questions into a list of unique questions (non-duplicated questions).
• Send them to the guest speakers within 2 weeks of their talk.

Resources/Instructions

Slack Announcement (edit this)

📣 Mark your Calendars! Ciara(Kiki) Salmon will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on 2023-04-26!

💻 Topic: Accessibility in UX

? Please post your questions in this GitHub issue ⬅️ ⬇️

👤About: Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google.

👋 LinkedIn

Thank you!
UI/UX CoP co-leads
@ Jennifer Nguyen @ Julia Gab @ Aparna Gopal

• UI/UX Slack Channel
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciara-salmon

Speaker Bio

Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google. She has her undergraduate in cognitive psychology with emphasis in linguistics and her masters in occupational therapy. She practiced as a clinician prior to transitioning into the UX space and now specializes in accessibility. Previously Ciara has had volunteered for code for America through the HFLA and Code for San Jose brigades. She primarily focuses on qualitative research but has began expanding into mixed method research.

[Aparna1Gopal]

Questions:

• How can we, as UX practitioners start looking to incorporate accessibility standards in our practice? Advice for UX Researchers, UX Designers, UX Writers. Would the advice/approach be similar or different?

• How can teams cross-collaborate across different domains (examples: UR’ers, PMs, Devs, other stakeholders) to make accessibility requirements a ‘must have’ rather than a ‘nice to have’?

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MeetUp Details: Slack communication with Admin:

📣 Mark your Calendars! Ciara(Kiki) Salmon will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on 2023-04-26, 6PM PST!
💻 Topic: Accessibility in UX
👤About: Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google.
👋 LinkedIn
❓ Please post your questions in this GitHub issue ⬅️
Thank You!
⏱️ Register in advance for this webinar:
https://codeforamerica.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ytpQZroFT6CzR3onPz8Qkw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

[Aparna1Gopal]

Meet-Up link

Accessibility in UX with Ciara (Kiki) Salmon

[elimarietta]

Question:

• How would you differentiate between accessibility and inclusive design?

[nguyen-jenn]

Questions:

• Do you think accessible designs benefit every user?
• Do you have to take a course/earn a certification to be an "expert in accessibility"?
• What kinds of tests/research do you run to confirm a product is "accessible"?
• How do you know if a product is "accessible" or "accessible enough"? In other words, what are the standards you try to adhere by?

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Collated questions for Ciara (Kiki) Salmon

Working with Accessibility in Career

• How can we, as UX practitioners start looking to incorporate accessibility standards in our practice? Advice for UX Researchers, UX Designers, UX Writers. Would the advice/approach be similar or different?
• How can teams cross-collaborate across different domains (examples: UR’ers, PMs, Devs, other stakeholders) to make accessibility requirements a ‘must have’ rather than a ‘nice to have’?
• Do you have to take a course/earn a certification to be an "expert in accessibility"?

What defines Accessibility

• How would you differentiate between accessibility and inclusive design?
• What kinds of tests/research do you run to confirm a product is "accessible"?
• How do you know if a product is "accessible" or "accessible enough"? In other words, what are the standards you try to adhere by?

Opinion on Accessibility

• Do you think accessible designs benefit every user?

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New Slack Announcement with Meetup Link

📣 Mark your Calendars! Ciara(Kiki) Salmon will be visiting the UI/UX Community of Practice on 2023-04-26!
💻 Topic: Accessibility in UX
👤About: Ciara (Kiki) Salmon is a user experience researcher at a contract agency who conducts research for companies such as Google.
👋 LinkedIn
❓ Please post your questions in this GitHub issue ⬅️
📝 Make sure to RSVP and register for the zoom webinar at this link ⬅️
Thank you!
UI/UX CoP co-leads
@jennifer Nguyen @julia Gab @aparna Gopal

[notkarenyi]

What options are there for accessibility for data science? eg, graphs cannot have effective alt text

[Aparna1Gopal]

Resources shared during the Talk

• Corien Staels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgXs34a1tJw
• Corien Staels: https://wheelair.co.uk
• Link to Kiki’s Slide Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18a2RxoKW1tJH8T10XKtflq4OYV_QYrx71cLX5wCfaSk/edit#slide=id.g22c009d7571_0_1086
• Kent Eisenhuth: https://kenteisenhuth.com
• Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit Talk: https://www.deque.com/axe-con/sessions/microsoft-inclusive-design-the-cognitive-model/
• Kiki’s Slide Deck (pdf):
  Intro to accessibility - HackForLA.pdf

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Questions Collected During Event

Can you talk about the jump from academic research to your research at google. How did you make that leap and what insights might you offer about this process?

What do you think of getting 508 Certification training?

Besides the financial benefits accessibility brings that you mentioned, how do you advocate for accessible design to clients or stakeholders who are insistent on specific visual designs that aren’t accessible?

How do you make sure the product team incorprates accessibility early on?

What are technologies you're keeping an eye on at the forefront of accessibility development? eg ChatGPT4 for auto generated alt text

[Aparna1Gopal]

Slack Message

[Aparna1Gopal]

Resources & Wiki Updated. Issue being closed.

:blob-wave:Thank You all for attending Kiki Salmon's talk on UX & Accessibility tonight!
📚The resources shared during the talk can be found here
:film_frames: The recording is available on our Wiki!