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Involving users in the design and evaluation of websites is one of the keys to ensuring they are accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. In this chapter, we present the core barriers and solutions that are often encountered by participants in user research activities that are undertaken as part of modern user-centred design processes. We close the chapter with a discussion of future areas of research around measurement of accessible user experiences and a short list of key things to remember when undertaking user research with people with disabilities.
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In this chapter, we use website broadly to mean both more traditional content-heavy websites and more modern interactive web applications
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Note If new information comes to light that researchers want to use as primary data as a result of these after session discussions, researchers should confirm with participants that they can indeed use it.
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Elevators for some of our readers!
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Power, C., Petrie, H. (2019). Working With Participants. In: Yesilada, Y., Harper, S. (eds) Web Accessibility. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_9
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