Add Accessibility to the list of User Experience
Accessibility is a necessary skill for designing the user experience. This has to do with how accessible your software is to people with special needs such as those with impaired vision, hearing or limited motor skills. Making your software accessible is not only a good idea but in many instances it is the law or a requirement of company policy. This is an area where the architect plays a key role in helping to insure that the software will be written in such a way to take advantage of the accessibility features of the platform. Thanks to my colleague Robin Mestre who pointed this out to me. The list just keeps on growing... Do we have any other essential user experience skills for the architect?
For more on accessibility see
https://www.section508.gov/
https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disacc.htm
https://www.microsoft.com/enable/
https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
My original list of essential User Experience skills is here
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