A shortened version of my talk, tailored to Role = Drinks in Amsterdam. I review examples of situational disabilities and provide some sneaky user stories.

1. Selfish Accessibility
Presented by Adrian Roselli for Role=Drinks
Slides will be available at rosel.li/RoleDrinks

2. Be Selfish
Photo of Amsterdam at night by Jean van der Sluijs.

3. WebAIM’s Hierarchy for Motivating
Accessibility Change
http://webaim.org/blog/motivating-accessibility-change/

4. My Hierarchy for Motivating
Accessibility Change
Is better, no?

5. Getting Older
• Affects (nearly) everyone,
• Carries risks and side effects,
• Is not for the young.
I’m still experimenting with it.

6. Rising Damp on Flickr.

7. Darren Baldwin on Flickr.

8. Accidents
• Broken limbs,
• Eye injuries,
• Hearing injuries,
• Head trauma.
All of these have happened to me, multiple times.

9. Rev Stan on Flickr.

10. Let Ideas Compete on Flickr.

11. Fluffy Steve on Flickr.

12. Paul Townsend on Flickr.

13. But I’m Invincible!
• Multi-tasking,
• Sunlight,
• Eating at your desk,
• No headphones handy,
• Content is not in your native language.
The sun is trying to kill me.

14. Mariëlle on Flickr.

15. barockschloss on Flickr.

16. Seb on Flickr.

17. A.Davy on Flickr.

18. Steve Rhodes on Flickr.

19. SuperFantastic on Flickr.

20. World Bank Photo Collection on Flickr.

21. Lars Kristian Flem on Flickr.

22. Tech Support
• Think of your family!
• Think of your time spent helping them!
• Think of the wasted holidays!
This is why we hate the holidays.

23. Robert Simmons on Flickr.

24. User Experience Models

25. User Stories
• Components:
• User,
• Outcome,
• Value.
• Writing:
• As user, I want outcome.
• As user, I want outcome so that value.
• In order to get value as user, I want outcome.
How to Write User Stories for Web Accessibility

26. Selfish User Stories
• As a user on a sun-lit patio, I want to be able
to read the content and see the controls.
Add beer and as a user I may have trouble focusing.

27. Selfish User Stories
• As a user in bed with a sleeping spouse, I want
to watch a training video in silence so that I
can get caught up at work.
As a user who doesn’t want to get punched for having slacked off at work.

28. Selfish User Stories
• In order to click links as a user with no elbow
room in coach class with a tiny trackpad, I
want click areas to be large enough and
adequately spaced.
As a user in coach class who also paid too much for the drink he’s spilling on his keyboard.

29. Selfish User Stories
• As a user distracted by the TV, I want clear
headings and labels so that I don’t lose my
place.
As a user who really should be finishing his work in the office.

30. Personas
Book Excerpt: A Web for Everyone, by Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery

31. Personas
Adrian
• Works when he should be relaxing, relaxes
when he should be working.
• Lives between motorcycles.
• Works late at night with the TV on.
• Uses sub-titles in Netflix.
• Keeps all screens as dark as possible.
That photo is from official ID.

32. Be Selfish
(or learn to fake empathy)

33. Selfish Accessibility
Presented by Adrian Roselli for Role=Drinks
Slides will be available at rosel.li/RoleDrinks