What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility

Accessibility is a core quality of digital products that must be addressed throughout the development lifecycle. "What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility" prepares readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices, covering guiding principles, core attributes, and requirements, and accessibility-informed engineering practices. It highlights practical insights into how engineering teams can effectively address accessibility throughout the technology development lifecycle and uses international standards to define and measure accessibility quality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Accessibility is a fundamental quality of digital products that must be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. "What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility" is a comprehensive guide that prepares readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices. It provides a clear understanding of accessibility as an engineering challenge and helps readers address the correct problems in the correct way. Illustrated with diverse perspectives from accessibility practitioners and advocates, the book describes how people with disabilities use technology, the nature of accessibility barriers in the digital world, and the role of engineers in breaking down those barriers.

Accessibility competence for current, emerging, and future technologies is addressed through a combination of guiding principles, core attributes, and requirements, and accessibility-informed engineering practices. The book discusses how technology can support inclusion for people with disabilities and how rigorous engineering processes help create quality user experiences without introducing accessibility barriers. It explains foundational principles and guidelines that build core competency in digital accessibility as they are applied across diverse and emerging technology platforms.

Highlights practical insights into how engineering teams can effectively address accessibility throughout the technology development lifecycle. It uses international standards to define and measure accessibility quality and is written to be accessible to non-experts in the subject area. "What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility" is aimed at students, professionals, and researchers in the field of software engineering.

Weight: 410g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032263861