Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

In Italy, D.L 76/2020 extended the accessibility rules to private sector too (see art. 3 c. 1-bis of L 4/2004), so now both public and private sites and digital services have to comply with the accessibility regulations.

The lab illustrates the methodologies and tools for the verification and design of digital sites and services, both public and private, compliant with European and Italian legislation: an accessible site or service becomes usable regardless of the tool used to access it, with undoubted advantages for all the users it is aimed at, not only for people with physical or cognitive problems, even if only temporary. Learning methods and techniques for inclusive design, attentive to extensive use, is therefore essential for sites and services, both public and private, which will be not only compliant with the legislation but also adequate, usable and effective.

At the end of the lab you will have the knowledge to design the accessibility of a digital site or service, using UX methodologies and illustrated accessibility rules, or to evaluate its compliance with international recommendations and current legislation.

This will take place with a path of progressive knowledge about accessibility (rules, techniques, constraints) understood as a mode of use independent of the tools used and the physical or cognitive abilities of the user, first of all aimed at the designers of sites and services. The focus that clients, designers and developers need to be able to develop in order to achieve an effectively inclusive digital service will also be discussed.

The regulatory recall seeks to impose on the attention of the market the duty to take into account the needs and requirements of the user, regardless of the physical, cognitive, cultural skills possessed, after years of guilty inattention or limited awareness of the need for a design appropriate to the now extensive use of sites and services and truly inclusive.

This lab aims to fill, at least in part, this cultural gap of ICT.

Outline of UX design: cycles, methods, measurements.

Inclusive design: cultural sensitivity and respect for differences

Usability, accessibility, inclusion: about the quality of sites and services

Accessibility(s): the design challenges to independence from access tools

European Directives 2016/2102 and 2019/882 and their implementation in Italy

The Italian rules for public and private sites

Guidelines and role of AgID

The UNI CEI EN 301549:2021 standard

The W3C recommendations (WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2)

Designing accessibility (and for all)

Compliance control: methods and tools

The subjective verification and the declaration of accessibility.

The accessibility of published contents and materials

The current degree of digital services accessibility in Europe and in Italy.

ENROLL TO THE LAB IS MANDATORY

Homeworks are mandatory and could be done in team (each one with max 3-4 students).

All the homeworks must be always submitted at requested date, independently from lesson attendance, and had to receive a positive mark to be accepted as done.

Total Lab lessons: 18 hours

Timetable and location:

Thursday from 11 am to 2 pm, September 21st (in Sala Olimpia Edisu) and in F5 (CLE) 28th, 5th, 12th, 19th October 26th. 

3 CFU assigned if a positive mark has been achieved  (attendace rules compliance included, lab activity and final project work).

Homeworks and final report (project work)  will be evaluated.

The project work will assest the accessibility of public and private sites/digital services, or a report about an accessibility issue.

3 CFU are then assigned if a positive mark has been achieved  (attendace rules compliance included, lab activity and final project work).