What Are Personas? Inclusive Design & Accessibility Guide

What are Personas? An Inclusive Design and Accessibility Guide

“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone, regardless of disability, is an essential aspect.”

Tim Berners Lee. — W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

Diversity is the new commonality.

With the world being an open stage, we are now exposed to all kinds of possibilities.

From different cuisines to cultures, the internet has brought everything to your table, literally.

However, has this power of the internet given the same power to all, equally? Is the availability of the web to all justly accessible to all?

Apart from being cryptic in its own way, the world of web poses problems of accessibility in various ways.

As an attempt to curb these limitations and uplift a significant part of the population (The World Bank statistics show that there are 1 billion people with disabilities in the world, which makes 15% of the world’s population.

Among them, 110–190 million people are experiencing severe disabilities), inclusivity has become a necessity.

Addressing this, a user-centred design movement emerged as a significant design…