Inclusive Personas and Accessible Design Prompts

Generate inclusive personas, learn how people with disabilities use the web, and design more accessible products and services with these empathy prompts, accessible personas, and design generators.

Team Stark
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Resources • Empathy Prompts

Empathy Prompts

Prompts and ideas to help consider Inclusive Design principles when making things for others to use.

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Resources • Qvik

Four personas to help you create accessible digital services

These four personas capture a variety of reasons why accessibility is a consideration in the first place. There are millions of people in the world who have special needs when it comes to digital services.

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Resources • Maya Benari

Empathy maker

Generate inclusive personas to see unique disabilities and physical contexts.

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Resources • W3C

Stories of Web Users

How people with disabilities use the web.

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Blogs & Articles • ux collective

Creating accessibility personas

At the end of the day, personas are just one tool that teams can use to help them understand their users. Don’t forget to actually talk to your users — including those with disabilities — across the design and development stages to ensure your product and service really is a great experience for them.

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Resources • The Accidental Ally

Accessibility Personas

With this poster series, we hope to raise awareness of the many different kinds of invisible disability. Our hope is to elevate their stories, to build compassion for one another, to explore one of our many core beliefs.

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Blogs & Articles • Mark Boyes-Smith

Accessibility personas in detail

Six accessibility personas in detail that will help you design more accessible and useful products and services. You can also download a PDF version of these personas for use with your teams.

Resources • Anne Gibson

An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues

This alphabet soup of accessibility is not a collection of personas.

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Resources • Idean

Cards for Humanity

A practical tool for inclusive design.

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Resources • gov uk

Understanding disabilities and impairments - user profiles

A set of profiles highlighting common barriers users face when accessing digital services and tips for designing services everyone can use.

Resources • Sojier Tsai

Persona Spectrum

Why we need persona Spectrum? Something wrong?

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Blogs & Articles • medium

Personas with Disabilities

A good read about Orthogonal Personas with Disabilities. This implies that the Personas with disabilities are to be treated as if they are connected with and at a right angle to, but not integrated with, your existing personas that everyone knows and loves.

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Resources • gov uk

Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility

The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government.

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Resources • Accessible Ontario

Inclusive Design Toolkit

Use these cards early in the design process to help you sketch, plan, prototype and design content, interactions and processes.

Resources • Anne Gibson

Alphabet of Accessibility Deck

This deck helps designers and developers think about different kinds of disability and accessibility

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Resources • microsoft

Microsoft Inclusive Design Resources

Practice new skills, develop new concepts, or create a prototype—the toolkit is made to be retrofitted to your design team’s goals. Download everything here, and start exploring!

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Resources • Gov UK

Accessibility Personas

The GDS Accessibility team has created 7 different accessibility personas. Each persona has different access needs.

Resources • Alicia Crowther

Creating accessible personas

Personas are used across organisations in UX or marketing to help businesses better understand the customers they are serving. Like any deliverable, it’s important to consider the accessibility of personas so that your audience can understand and engage with them.