Investigating the Intersection of Cultural Design Preferences and Web Accessibility Guidelines with Designers from the Global South
Explores tensions between Global South designers' cultural preferences and accessibility guidelines largely developed in the Global North.
Citation
Nourian, L., Naikar, V. H., Shinohara, K., & Tigwell, G. W. (2025). Investigating the Intersection of Cultural Design Preferences and Web Accessibility Guidelines with Designers from the Global South. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), 1–19.
Method
Design activities and interviews with ten designers from five Global South countries.
Claims used
- Accessible web design raises culture-specific challenges in typography, color schemes, and broader social contexts.
Limitations: Qualitative study with ten participants; the abstract does not name the countries.
Extracted principles
- Cool hues for large surfacesNot tested
For large colored areas, blue, blue-green, green, and blue-violet may be safer choices than yellow, yellow-green, or brown.
ColorTypography