Tag: GDS

If you’re a designer or engineer and have never dug in to accessibility personas or cognitive walkthroughs before, I’d recommend checking out GDS’s accessibility persona homepages and their accompanying blog post about how they use persona profiles to test accessibility. As of right now, their profiles include the following personas:

• Claudia – a sight impaired screen magnifier user
• Ashleigh – a severely sight impaired screenreader user
• Ron – an older user with multiple conditions
• Chris – a user with rheumatoid arthritis
• Pawel – an autistic user
• Simone – a dyslexic user
• Saleem – a profoundly deaf user

It’s no substitute for testing with real users, but it’s a big step in the right direction if it’s not already a part of your design and engineering process.