This week in class we looked at accessible design and universal design and how they are used when it comes to our surroundings, websites, device tools and colour. I found the lecture this week to be interesting as I never realised the quantity of people who benefit from accessible design and even things I wouldn't of picked up on like link colours, button colours and shadows and website navigation.
I found an article on the gov.uk website about a designer called Karwai Pun who works for home office digital. She created six different posters on accessibility targeting users who are: deaf, low vision, dyslexic, on the autistic spectrum, users of screen readers and users with motor/physical disabilities. The posters are aimed to raise awareness of different conditions and I think that they do a good job of showing users how to make their designs accessible.
Xbox sell a controller that is accessible for people who are unable to use the traditional controller. This controller comes with various types of input devices that the user can utilise like: oversized buttons, finger switches, blowing tubes, foot pedals as well as other methods of input. It allows users to map the A, B, X, Y buttons to any on the controller so that they can comfortably use it. I think this product is great as it means that gaming is more inclusive and I think that this controller helped pave the way for more accessible controllers as playstation have also recently launched their own.