BIG IDeA Brainstorming Notes (January 17, 2017 Design Crit)

Grant and project description: https://www.certifiedforaccess.ca/content/business-innovation-guide-inclusive-design-and-accessibility-bigidea

"We are building a curated learning experience for business, obligated organizations, community groups, and customers* on Inclusive Design."

• the exact wording of groups, see the Certified for Access project description.

• Something like an OER. What do we mean when we say we are making an "OER"?

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  • consolidation of content (like the Design Toolkit landing page)
    
    

  • reframing

• additional scaffolding and content required to flesh out obvious gaps
  
  

• Changes to improve access

  • i.e. info re-architecture (i.e. for the ILDH?), redesign (i.e. for ADOD?)

  
  
  

• Building better entry points - not buried in a "thicket of the Wiki garden"

• Razorfish will be making the Big Idea website, and our "OER" will be integrated somehow. This is to-be-determined.

1. "Smaller" resources that can be integrated into our existing resources

2. Stand-alone resources which need increased visibility e.g. re-design, or creation of doc site etc

3. Consolidate/describe our resources from BIGIDeAS perspective (redefine entry points etc)

Google Diagram: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1xIhesOQroKDmyQQmBFf2f7uBssZmM4GO_Lu_Wirb95Y/edit?usp=sharing

Under DIY bubble, add:

• micro computers

• prototyping tools

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  • cardboard prototyping

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  • upcoming sonification prototyping tool

How do our partner projects fit into this? i.e. Pressbooks, PhET

• Goal focused:

  • i.e. coming to learn document and web accessibility (ADOD, WCAG, ARIA)

• Question: If we anticipate users coming to the resource for concrete information, how do we guide them to a perspective shift?

  • How might we strcuture / present / strategize to guide them along the path?

The Inclusive Design Guide:

• should be presented as a resource to be used - some thought may need to be given to re-present some parts 

• Tools section in the Guide may be the concrete things business audience are looking for immediately

• Tools section there's little going back to other parts of the guide - perhaps enhance this.

ADOD:

• mostly up to date: includes Word, Acrobat

• the value is in its specificity. Keeping it up to date in important.

• perhaps a redesign at some point (very "Drupal-y")

Specifications / Standards

• ARIA  -  https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/

  • should we make something like this, or is there a good resource available already?

Metadata

• where does it fit overall? Do we want to make this more prevalent / relevant?
  
  
  

Other resources to consider / topics of interest:

• data visualization, sonification, dealing with big data

• customer service

  • i.e. Oxford Properties "ASK" program

  • examples of ID in customer service. Customized or personalized customer service (i.e. online chat vs. voice chat).

• case studies - examples of how ID is being used

  • i.e. Oxford Properties, Macmillan Learning, PhET, Microsoft

• everyday examples

  • Do we have a compiled list of examples of things like Good grips which are good examples of ID? Does one exist already?

  • http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/technology/eleccurbcut.htm

  • this would contribute to encouraging businesses to go beyond the standards etc
    
    

• quantifying the benefits of Inclusive Design

  • Example: http://www.martinprosperity.org/media/ReleasingConstraintsAccessible.html

  • Also work of David Lawson may be of interest (contact info to be given)

• presentations / slide decks / videos / other media? Should we do more videos?
  
  

• Resource / idea sharing: how can this be done within groups: what tools are available? What are the benefits.

• Do we have any resources on defining "Customers / Clients"? i.e. there may be no typical "customer" ... getting groups to think about their clients/customers/partners as a spectrum

• How do we present the idea that going beyond the spec, standard, etc is good and encouraged?

  • it may be implicit in some of our resources (i.e. Design Guide) but it may need to be more explicit.

• How do we enable updating, adaptations, translations of our "OER"? Are there tools already that can be used?

• Do we have any Use Case Scenarios for our audience? Talk to David and Jess

    http://www.adaptivedesign.org/ - DIY 

    http://edgelab.ryerson.ca/