Echoing Nicholas and Jeff, I believe it is important for designers to have a fundamental understanding of how interactions are implemented online (or in any environment) in order to understand possible accessibility implications.
In my designs, I've always tried to lay out two paths for interaction. One that makes use of the "lowest possible level" so that those faces with accessibility issues are still able to utilize the tool, and one that builds on top of the first to streamline interactions for those whos technology can handle it. One thing to mention though is that there have been times where even though I take this approach, one interaction path is adopted/implemented by the development and business areas and not the other. This primarily happens when those areas (for some reason) implementing 2 paths is twice as expensive, and/or accessibility is not a concern. Sad, I know. -adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32646 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
