Lauren Race

Lauren Race

Accessibility Designer in Brooklyn, New York, She/her

About

Accessibility Designer combining human-centered, multisensory, and co-design methods to craft and evaluate accessible experiences through product design, design systems, UX research, design reviews and audits, upskilling design orgs, and design strategy and innovation.

Projects

2022

I designed and evaluated an alt text badge on Twitter, indicating images with alt text and displaying the alt text visually, supporting non screen-reader users who magnify content or want more context around an image. Afterwards, we launched an alt text reminder to encourage adoption. Both features have more than tripled alt text frequency on the platform.

2019

I designed a set of standards and best practices for designing tactile schematics for non-visual circuit building, along with a free library of completed tactile schematics for download. The library of designed tactile schematics has been published as a resource in NYU ITP’s Physical Computing curriculum, accessed over 1,800 times, and used in two NYU Blind Arduino workshops.