Profile of participants

About our participants

• 31 web professionals participated in the INMD project (28 in the workshops, 3 in interviews)

• 13 participants were female; 18 were male.

• 27 participants were employed; five were self-employed; one person was both.

• Age ranges:

  • 20 to 29 years: 13

  • 30 to 39 years: 9

  • 40 to 49 years: 7

  • 50 to 59 years: 2

• Years of work experience:

  • 10 or more years: 5

  • 6 to 9 years: 7

  • 2 to 5 years: 13

  • under 2 years: 6

Participants had a variety of job titles. Their work covered a range of activities involved in building the web, including information architecture, project management, marketing, front and back-end coding, and visual design.

Prior to taking part in INMD, 25 participants had some knowledge of web accessibility. However, only two participants had considered the accessibility needs of web users with intellectual disabilities.

Only one third of participants had experience user testing with disabled users and only one participant had done user testing with intellectually disabled users.

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