Accessibility

at Khan Academy

Project Overview

As a Senior Product Designer with a focus on Accessibility, I lead a11y at the design team level to increase working knowledge and practice for a11y, and coordinate cross-functionally to drive strategic a11y efforts across the platform.

My Contributions

There are multiple bodies of a11y work that span the design team level and the platform level. Some larger efforts include:

A11y design reviews, with a11y annotations, A11y Guild reviews and design knowledge sharing and up-skilling.
Co-lead A11y Guild at Khan Academy.
Create a11y resources from the ground up that set ways of working for a11y across agile teams, like checklists and product development process.
Including a11y in my own product design projects at KA.
Work cross-functionally with an a11y pod to deliver strategic objectives for the org, including a path to VPAT and a11y vendor collaboration.

A11y design annotations

Feature project

Course and unit revamp

This project was to revamp our course and unit pages at Khan Academy. Part of design review and deliverables to our cross-functional team includes design review for a11y, documentation via comments or Figma a11y annotations, and collaboration with PMs and Engineers to align on a11y needs ahead of time. Here's a few examples:

A11y annotations for skip link, landmarks and headings

A user interface showing accessibility annotations for skip link, landmarks and headings

A11y annotations for links, buttons, images, tooltips

A user interface showing accessibility annotations for links, buttons, images and tooltips

A11y annotations for focus order (or TAB stops)

A user interface showing accessibility annotations for focus order or tab stops