Christine Woolley

04. Building meaningful connections with disability communities

Framework 04. Building meaningful connections with disability communitiesPartner with disability groups, organizations and communities to create collaboration and learning opportunities between people with disabilities (lived experience) and graphic designers.Recommendations: 15. Partner with disability groups and organizations in B.C. to develop a best practice guide on how to work with the disability community and individuals with disabilities for accessible design testing and advancement in a respectful and ethical way.16. Develop and fund a province-wide disabled user testing and co-design program that includes:– recruiting and supporting an active network of people with disabilities who use various assistive technologies.– crowdsourcing a virtual testing space, if and when needed.– providing access for graphic designers to connect with the network of testers for accessible design testing.– providing a means for collecting disabled user inputs and feedback for broader integrated learning.– setting a transparent and equitable means of compensating disabled users for their time, experience and contributions.