Sighted-Centric Design

Design approaches and practices that privilege sighted sensemaking and marginalize blind and non-visual ways of relating to the world. Sighted-centered design produces technologies, interfaces, and descriptive standards that assume visual perception as the default mode of interaction, often failing to account for the diverse experiences and epistemologies of blind and low vision users. Challenging sighted-centric design requires involving blind people throughout the design process, not just in testing.