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The Ultimate Guide to Strategic Accessibility

“Strategic design is about applying the principles of traditional design to “big picture” systemic challenges such as healthcare, education…

3 min readMar 22, 2023

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Venn diagram showing the overlap of culture, people and processes

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Accessibility Testing Best Practices: Ensuring Inclusive Product Quality

This year, the theme for National AccessAbility Week is “Disability Inclusion: From Possibilities to Practice”. Technology is evolving…

3 min readJun 3, 2023

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Quality written on a chalkboard with various drawings and symbols of what quality might mean

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Product Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Product

When I tried on my first set of myo-electric arms, I was excited, anxious and a little bit scared. Through The War Amps Child Amputee…

4 min readNov 3, 2022

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people of various abilities and colours

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Inclusive research, by design

When I was much younger, doctors told me I couldn’t have prosthetics because I had hands and they had never seen someone like me wear…

2 min readAug 26, 2021

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Cliff Chadderton showing me some information

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How to be an inclusive content queen

Speaking, writing and reading are integral to my everyday life.

3 min readJun 9, 2021

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Designing inclusive interactions

“Disability is a mismatched interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live.” —…

3 min readMay 20, 2021

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Making colours accessible to all

”In visual perception, a colour is almost never seen as it really is […] This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” — Joseph…

3 min readApr 17, 2021

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The dress — Is it blue and black or white and gold?

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A Word on Ableism…

“What do I do if I say or do the wrong thing?”

2 min readApr 15, 2021

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Dice spelling out the word ABLEISM

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6 Tips for Running an Inclusive Guild

I’m a little late in posting this. However, in celebration of #GAAD2020, and the upcoming National Accessibility Week (NAAW), Daniel Dafoe…

2 min readApr 13, 2021

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A blue circle with outline of a person in the middle

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What is Inclusive Design, anyways?

“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.“ — Herbert Simon —

3 min readApr 11, 2021

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Empathy map with a person in the center: think & feel, hear, see, say and do.

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Alicia Jarvis, CPACC, CSM

Alicia Jarvis, CPACC, CSM

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility Portfolio at Bell, Diversity & Inclusion Strategist & Researcher Views expressed are my own. https://www.alicia.design/

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