1 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:05,580 Let's talk about some assistive technologies, so, you know, when people come to our site to use our 2 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:10,800 products, those that have disabilities are typically using what's called an assistive technology, 3 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:12,990 whether that's a device or software. 4 00:00:13,380 --> 00:00:18,660 And there's a wide range of them that are important to understand because it's going to open your mind 5 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:23,790 to some of the ways that people are interacting with your content and the user experience you're creating 6 00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:24,210 online. 7 00:00:24,750 --> 00:00:25,610 So here are some of them. 8 00:00:26,460 --> 00:00:27,780 We have screen readers. 9 00:00:28,740 --> 00:00:35,310 Now, this is probably a more common one that we've all heard about, but it's a program that helps 10 00:00:35,310 --> 00:00:38,670 the visually impaired understand the content displayed on the page. 11 00:00:39,210 --> 00:00:44,280 So it basically converts digital text and labels and images and descriptions to something that is more 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,080 readable by this piece of software. 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,860 So you could imagine that they were all they would need to do is press play. 14 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:53,220 And they could read like an entire block of text. 15 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,380 They could read entire Web pages. 16 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:59,370 Something else people use our Braille terminals. 17 00:00:59,580 --> 00:01:05,550 Now, those who can't see that well or can see it all use Braille terminals and the round patterns that 18 00:01:05,550 --> 00:01:11,340 come through the halls help blind people actually read and can see what's going on on the screen. 19 00:01:11,910 --> 00:01:17,220 There's also something called a switch or some sort of tap control, which basically is like a joystick. 20 00:01:17,220 --> 00:01:19,710 Or you can use the keyboard spacebar to do this. 21 00:01:19,710 --> 00:01:25,170 But essentially, as you tap on your trackpad or your keyboard, it will help you to navigate the screen. 22 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:31,380 Again, this may not be the best experience, but it is a way that people are interacting with various 23 00:01:31,380 --> 00:01:34,620 pieces of our content and we really need to take that into account. 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:42,310 Next, we have screen magnification software, which kind of works like a magnifying glass on the screen. 25 00:01:43,270 --> 00:01:44,560 As you can see over here. 26 00:01:45,620 --> 00:01:50,970 It's not like what you would typically see when you hit, you know, like a zoom on your browser. 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,990 It's not that everything scales up at once. 28 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:59,090 It's as the user has control over this little magnifier window inside of the software so that they can 29 00:01:59,090 --> 00:02:04,670 magnify certain elements or a section of the screen or design of a website. 30 00:02:04,850 --> 00:02:09,890 And that reinforces the fact that, you know, all the elements of our design should be scalable. 31 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:15,620 So you can see over here he has this section actually magnified so he can read it easily. 32 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,570 And lastly, what I have here are Ultranet input software and devices. 33 00:02:21,030 --> 00:02:27,140 As you can imagine, there's also speech input software, which is a lot different than Alexa or Google 34 00:02:27,140 --> 00:02:31,460 home, but basically it allows people to control the computer with their voice. 35 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:38,540 There's also devices like we see here with the keyboard and the gentleman over here is using a stick 36 00:02:38,540 --> 00:02:39,600 to actually type. 37 00:02:40,130 --> 00:02:45,620 So once again, we need to take into account all the different ways people are interacting with our 38 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:51,320 website because it will affect the way we approach designing it and developing it.