Kevin Carey
is the founder Director of humanITy , a UK not-for-profit eInclusion consultancy which has devoted itself during the past ten years to studying e-Inclusion and helping to formulate platform neutral public and industrial policy. Kevin has been a Member of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative and the Ofcom Content Board. He is currently Chair of the Ofcom Community Radio Panel and Vice Chair of RNIB. He is a regular contributor to Ability Magazine and Managing Information.
Title: The Principles of Digital Design for Optimal Inclusion
Abstract: In the first 10 years of the World Wide Web, the emphasis in accessibility was largely concerned with the particularly severe problems confronting blind and visually impaired people. With the growth of convergence there is a new opportunity to implement optimal digital information design to meet a variety of user requirements from automobile drivers to those with special needs where such attributes as defaulted simplicity, predictability and consistency are applied across platforms in such areas as user interface design, information display and taxonomy. The BBC is used as a case study.