Accessible design is good design: how to meet the new EU rules

Hello from Each&Other,

Here’s what we’re thinking about this month:

• The European Accessibility Act is on its way and putting inclusive design on everyone’s radar;
• What we’ve achieved for our customers with Team Augmentation;
• And down the rabbit hole: The Apple Vision Pro, good taste & AI, Jacob Nielsen on accessibility and Stark’s first whitepaper on managing modern accessibility posture.

Peter & the E&O team

Article:

Accessible design is good design: how to meet the new EU rules

The European Accessibility Act will apply from mid-2025. Here’s why it’s the perfect trigger for embracing inclusive design and improved user experience that benefits everyone.

This is the chance for designers, developers, decision makers, and leaders invested in making products or services usable, to build accessibility in from the beginning, or, if retrofitting existing products, to start now to meet the new standards.

Although legislation is something we have to comply with, it actually provides us with a set of useful standards to adhere to and can provide real direction to guide our work.

“ We’re talking about serving a large audience, not a minority group: one sixth of people in the world have a documented disability, says the WHO.”

In this month’s feature article , Each&Other’s Senior UX Designers Danielle Deveney and Michelle Mulvey talk about creating better experiences by designing with everyone in mind.

Read the full article

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Down the rabbit hole

What we’ve been reading about this month…

Technology | Hardware

The Apple Vision Pro is the Northstar the VR industry needed, whether we admit it or not.

[ Hugo.blog ]

Technology | AI

In a sea of different AI-generated design templates, good taste becomes more important than ever.

[ Itsnicethat.com ]

Design | Accessibility

Jacob Nielsen talked about accessibility in his recent blog post and now WE need to talk about JACOB .

[ Buttondown.email ]

Software | Accessibility

Accessibility tool Stark released their first whitepaper; Managing a modern accessibility posture and growing accessibility maturity at any scale

[ Getstark.co ]