Inclusive New Media Design

包容性新媒体设计旨在促进残疾人在社会上融入像WWW这样的新媒体。它将这样做，探索无障碍网站设计指南在新媒体设计师的工作实践中所占据的位置。这些指南是由万维网联盟的网络可访问性倡议(W3C WAI)制定的，W3C WAI是管理网络技术标准的组织，在许多国家，包括我们自己的国家，它们构成了新媒体设计师应该遵守的法律文件的基础。虽然有许多活动侧重于如何实施和改进指导方针，而且由于新政策、更容易获得的工具以及网页设计大师对它们的接受，人们对这些指导方针的认识越来越高，但还没有与新媒体设计者自己进行学术研究，以探索如何以及为什么采用或不采用无障碍技术。人们对新媒体设计做法中影响设计师对无障碍准则的看法的因素知之甚少，也不知道是否其他方法，如在设计过程中纳入残疾用户，或突出示范和鼓舞人心的无障碍设计做法，在说服设计师接受无障碍精神方面更有效。此外，指导方针将被整合到一个被认为既是直觉的又是未知的-创造性设计的过程中。包容性新媒体设计将通过探索两者之间的关系和潜力，将这些明显相互矛盾的力量结合在一起-一方面是详细的技术指南，另一方面是直观的设计。因此，该项目将以目前人文科学、人机界面和其他领域关于新媒体工作、设计和创意的辩论为框架。在该项目的两年期间，将与大约30名具有各种无障碍专业知识的新媒体设计师一起举办一系列讲习班，然后与设计师举行以工作为基础的观察会议。早期讲习班将侧重于解决问题--它们将举行协商焦点小组会议，在会上审查无障碍网页设计的范例，并将无障碍准则应用于创建新的媒体设计解决方案。在以后的讲习班中，将向残疾用户介绍设计师，以比较将用户融入设计过程与指导方针培训作为实现无障碍网页设计的一种手段的有效性。在研讨会上，参与者从项目组获得免费的咨询和咨询，他们同意项目组在他们的工作场所进行观察，分析他们正在工作的网站，并与他们讨论他们的无障碍方法，以及创意设计过程的具体内容。研究的目的是通过确定将残疾人纳入WWW的有效方法，使他们受益。这些发现将通过期刊文章在学术领域传播，并通过一个项目网站向新媒体设计师和开发人员传播。它们还将在Adobe无障碍小组的协助下分发给W3C和其他标准机构，旨在为国际社会为提高残疾人的网络无障碍能力而做出的努力提供信息。该项目将在UEL的Rix创新和学习障碍中心内运行，该中心在管理该领域的研究和开发方面有着良好的记录。该项目将解决身体和认知障碍者的无障碍需求，特别关注后者，国际上公认的这一群体历来没有参与网络无障碍努力。这些发现将对21世纪的设计具有重要意义，因为它们将有助于将残疾人，特别是认知障碍者纳入WWW，并有助于社会包容性的新媒体设计。

Inclusive New Media Design aims to contribute to teh social inclusion of people with disabilities in new media like the WWW. It will do this exploring the place occupied by guidelines for designing accessible websites in the work practices of new media designers. These guidelines are produced by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI), the organisation that governs the technical standards of the web, and, in many countries, including our own, they form the basis of legal documents to which new media designers should adhere. Whilst there is much activity focusing on how to implement and improve the guidelines, and there is growing awareness of them as a result of new policy, more accessible tools and their acceptance by web design gurus, no academic research has been carried out with new media designers themselves to explore how and why accessibility does or does not get taken up. Little is known about the factors within new media design practices which affect designers' perceptions of accessibility guidelines, or whether other approaches, such as the inclusion of disabled users in the design process, or highlighting exemplary and inspiring accessible design practice, are more effective in persuading designers to subscribe to the accessibility ethos. Furthermore, the guidelines are to be integrated into a process which is thought to be both intuitive and unknowable - creative design. Inclusive New Media Design will bring together these apparently contradictory forces - on the one hand, detailed technical guidelines, and on the other, intuitive design - by exploring the relationship and potential for copmpatability between the two. The project will thus be framed by current debate in the humanities, in HCI and beyond about new media work, design and creativity.Within the project's two-year duration, a series of workshops will be run with approximately 30 new media designers with a spectrum of accessibility expertise, followed by work-based observation sessions with the designers. The early workshops will focus on problem-solving - they will ne consultative focus group sessions in which examples of accessible web design are examined and accessibility guidelines are applied in the creation of new media design solutions. In later workshops, designers will be introduced to disabled users to compare the effectiveness of integrating users into the design process with guidelines training as a means of achieving accessible web design. In the workshops, participants get free advice and consultancy from the project team, and inr eturn, they agree to the project team carrying out observations in their workplaces, analysing the websites they are working on, and discussing with them their approaches to accessibility withint he ocntext of the creative design process.The research aims to benefit people with disabilities, by identifying effective approaches to their inclusion in the WWW. The findings will be disseminated in academic domains through journal articles, and to new media designers and developers through a project website. They will also be disseminated to the W3C and other standard bodies with the assistanceof Adobe's accessibility team and aim to inform international efforts to enhance web accessibility for people with disabilities. The project will be run from within UEL's Rix Centre for Innovation and Learning Disability, which has a track record of managing research and development within this field. The project wil address the accessibility needs for people with physical and cognitive disabilities, with particular attention to the latter, a group acknowledged internationally as historically absent from web accessibility efforts. The findings will be significant for 21st century design because they will contribute to the inclusion of people with disabilities, especially cognitive, in the WWW, and to socially inclusive new media design.