Design resources

The Accessible Procurement Toolkit has been providing procurement officers and purchasers with product-specific accessibility requirements, standards and best practices that can (or should) be applied when purchasing electronic and information technology, office products and services.

Another use for the toolkit is to show product designers and developers the range of accessibility standards that apply to their products. However, a commonly expressed concern is that either the reason for making such design decisions is unclear, and/or that the technical or functional standards are difficult to envision as actual product features.

To address the concerns of developers and designers the Accessible Procurement Toolkit is bringing together a series of design resources, demonstrations and mock-ups to illustrate aspects of accessible design or products and implementation of services.

As resources are identified, the Toolkit links to them from the appropriate locations:

• A resource that illustrates a particular standard is linked from that standard and will appear in the requirement or prerequisite list of any technology for which that standard applies.
  
  
• Some resources apply to specific products or services and those are linked from the Definition of the product.

This page will collect links to all the design resources for people who want to browse the range of solutions for many different products or standards.

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Design resource links

Mobility

• Can the controls be operated with one hand?
• Are the controls within reach of everyone?
• Do the controls require fine motor control?
• Is it usable from a wheelchair or scooter?
• Is there enough clear space for a wheelchair?
• Wheelchair viewing positions
  • Is there enough space for a wheelchair?
  • Can someone in a wheelchair see clearly?
  • Can someone in a wheelchair get out in an emergency?
• Can someone in a wheelchair get around the facility?

Blindness and Low Vision

• Large Screen Monitor for People with Low Vision
• Meeting Rooms for People with Limited Vision or who are Blind
  • Braille signage demo
  • Braille and Tactile Imaging Demo
• Instructional Materials Demo
• Screen Magnifying Lens demo
• Will people with vision impairments know where the buttons are?
• Can information be accessed privately?
• Is the text easy to read?
• Can someone with a vision impairment access the information?

Hearing and Deafness

• Visual alarm demo

Design for all

• Is the documentation usable by everyone?
• Is there more than one way to be identified?