The Accessible Procurement Toolkit
www.apt.gc.ca
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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.
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
- Can someone in a wheelchair get around the facility?
Blindness and Low Vision
- Meeting Rooms for People with Limited Vision or who are Blind
- Instructional Materials 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?
