Accessible design systems are key to cognitive easing, and cognitive easing improves the content experience for all audience and community engagement.
Accessible design systems use consistent information design and correlating visual hierarchies across your communication materials. So taking time to articulate your design system and create templates that include a holistic range of content experiences will improve engagement and information retention.
How to apply an accessibility first filter to:
- Experience Design
- Information Design and Copywriting
- Visual Design
- Video recording and post-production
- Audio recording and post-production
- Motion Graphics
Experience Design
Accessibility gives everyone equal access. So planning content experiences that provide equal access means creating experiences that a wide range of people can use.
And giving people choices for how they are consuming your content is one of the most effective ways to accomplish this. But it takes intentional ideation and planning to create integrated content optimized for accessibility.
If an event recording or article is going to be shared across multiple platforms, the core material should be created using accessible headers, copy, images, graphics, and video that translate to all channel formatting requirements.