Dr. Michele A. Williams has written a 324-page practical guide called 'Accessible UX Research,' published by Smashing Magazine. It covers the full research cycle: recruiting disabled participants, facilitating accessible sessions, avoiding biased methods, and reporting findings with impact. The foreword is by Jared Smith of WebAIM. A free PDF sample (2.3MB) is available, and the book is now shipping worldwide after months of customs and tariff disruptions.
The book's value is not in its conclusions but in its structure. Williams builds from mindset first, confronting ableism before touching a single research method, then moves through seven chapters covering disability categories, research phases, recruitment strategies, study design, facilitation, and analysis. That sequence is deliberate and worth following closely, especially chapters four and seven, which tackle the two points where inclusive research most often fails: finding participants and communicating results.
This is not a compliance checklist. It is written for researchers who already know accessibility matters but are unsure how to execute. If your team has ever excluded disabled participants because recruitment felt too hard, or buried accessibility findings because they didn't know how to present them, the full text has specific answers to both problems.
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