Inclusive New Media Design

包容性新媒体设计旨在促进残疾人在新媒体（如万维网）中的社会包容。它将这样做，探索在新媒体设计师的工作实践中设计无障碍网站的指导方针所占据的位置。这些指导方针是由万维网联盟的Web Accessibility Initiative（W3C WAI）制定的，该组织负责管理Web的技术标准，在许多国家，包括我们自己，它们构成了新媒体设计师应该遵守的法律的文件的基础。虽然有很多活动集中在如何实施和改进的指导方针，并有越来越多的认识，他们作为一个新的政策，更方便的工具和他们的接受网页设计大师的结果，没有学术研究已经进行了与新媒体设计师自己探索如何以及为什么无障碍是否被采纳。人们对新媒体设计实践中影响设计师对无障碍准则的看法的因素知之甚少，也不知道其他方法，如将残疾用户纳入设计过程，或突出示范性和鼓舞人心的无障碍设计实践，是否更有效地说服设计师认同无障碍精神。此外，这些指导方针将被整合到一个被认为是直观和不可知的过程中-创造性设计。包容性新媒体设计将这些明显矛盾的力量-一方面，详细的技术指南，另一方面，直观的设计-通过探索两者之间的关系和潜在的兼容性。因此，该项目将以当前人文学科、人机交互以及其他领域关于新媒体工作、设计和创造力的辩论为框架。在项目的两年时间内，将与大约30名具有无障碍专业知识的新媒体设计师举办一系列研讨会，然后与设计师进行基于工作的观察会议。早期的研讨会将侧重于解决问题-他们将举行协商焦点小组会议，其中审查无障碍网页设计的例子，并将无障碍指南应用于新媒体设计解决方案的创建。在以后的讲习班中，将向残疾用户介绍设计人员，比较将用户纳入设计过程与准则培训作为实现无障碍网页设计的一种手段的效果。在工作坊中，参与者可免费获得项目团队的建议和咨询，而他们也同意项目团队在他们的工作场所进行观察，分析他们正在工作的网站，并与他们讨论他们在创意设计过程中使用的无障碍方法，该研究旨在通过确定有效的方法使残疾人融入万维网，从而使他们受益。研究结果将通过期刊文章在学术领域传播，并通过项目网站向新媒体设计师和开发人员传播。在Adobe无障碍小组的协助下，这些标准还将分发给W3C和其他标准机构，目的是为国际努力提供信息，以提高残疾人的网络无障碍性。该项目将从UEL的里克斯创新和学习障碍中心内运行，该中心在这一领域内管理研究和开发的跟踪记录。该项目将解决有身体和认知障碍的人的无障碍需求，特别关注后者，这是一个国际公认的群体，历史上没有参与网页无障碍工作。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，特别是认知残疾人纳入万维网，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.