Using AI for Accessible Design Workflows

Course details

Did you know that you can use AI to make your design workflows more inclusive and accessible? In this course, instructor David Karlins covers the essentials of accessible design leveraging the power of cutting-edge AI tools. Ideal for design leaders and managers, UX designers and interaction designers, and project stakeholders tasked with systems and style guides, this course equips you with the skills you need to make everyday workflows more accessible.

Learning objectives
Leverage AI to audit your current design processes and assets for accessibility.
Maximize the impact of AI in an accessibility style guide for your organization that incorporates static and text-based content, audio and video, design system specifics such as colors and fonts, cognitive and motion requirements, and guidelines for inclusivity.
Promote your AI-enabled a11y style guide across the organization, maintaining it for accuracy, consistency, and validity.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Leverage AI in accessible design workflow
02 - Create a roadmap to improving existing accessibility in designs

1. Create a Community Cohort and Culture

03 - Train your cohort in basic accessibility principles
04 - Lead your cohort with collaborative discussions

2. Review and Critique Existing Materials

05 - Organize accessibility testing
06 - Survey designs for audio and visual accessibility issues
07 - Evaluate designs for cognitive and inclusive obstacles
08 - Identify potential medical triggers in designs
09 - Document accessibility issues objectively
10 - Identify foci for improvement
11 - Process and organize results of investigation
12 - Organize a revision workflow

3. Create an Accessibility Style Guide

13 - Supplement existing style guides
14 - Cohere policies into guidance on tone
15 - Document audience
16 - Implement a testing process
17 - Use AI to shortcut audio accessibility solutions
18 - Use AI to shortcut visual accessibility solutions
19 - Minimize obstacles for motor impaired audiences
20 - Avoid triggering seizures
21 - Define and implement inclusivity and avoid cognitive bandwidth overload in designs

4. Apply Your Style Guide

22 - Implement changes in teams with content creators and designers
23 - Create templates and models
24 - Create libraries of accessible material

5. Promote Your Style Guide

25 - Prepare detailed reports for tech and design
26 - Prepare high-level reports for stakeholders
27 - Create buy-in with effective presentations
28 - Share models of AI-generated solutions
29 - Provide accessible templates
30 - Generate a culture of iterative accessibility

Conclusion

31 - Next steps