A Comprehensive Guide to Accessible User Research: Part 1 – Project Planning

@BrianGrellmann’s first blog post of a series about taking an inclusive approach to accessibility in design research.

Things to consider:

• Goals
  • Continuous research with fewer participants or dedicated research with more participants (former is better)
• Fatigue
  • Longer sessions ~90mins
  • Review the session design to avoid fatigue
• Budget
  • Potentially a harder recruit, allow for more recruitment time and incentive cost
• Location
  • Some labs may have specific accessibility software but need to be accessible
  • Paricipant’s home/workplace offer more contextual insight to other access needs
  • Location of test incurs more travel cost
  • Remote tests must use accessible software and ability to capture audio (screenreader)