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How to discuss accessibility during a design/UI/UX interview or portfolio review

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
UX Collective
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6 min readJul 21, 2020

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Portfolio reviews are the penultimate step in the design/UI/UX interview process. It’s a chance to show your work, defend your decision making, explain your creative process, and allow your work to speak for you.

Accessibility questions occasionally come up in this process, especially if you are interviewing at a company that *really* cares about accessibility. If you have practice at universal/inclusive/accessible design then the answers to the questions below should be easy. The questions and structure around accessibility aren’t that much different from a portfolio review in general. But what if you haven’t done an accessible design before? Is it going to be an automatic…

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Written by Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.

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