From my talk Socializing for Heuristics: How Social Media Made Me a Better Tester (and Human), a list of heuristics to work toward inclusivity of your application.
Resources available here: https://github.com/g33klady/DiversifyingHeuristics
Names
- Would I feel excluded with a 1 char name?
- Would I feel excluded if my name were censored?
- Would I feel excluded if forced to use Western name ordering?
- Would I feel excluded if I had “special” characters in my name?
- Would I feel excluded if I had to change my name?
- Reference the 40 falsehoods
Bodies
- Would I feel excluded with a limb/digit difference?
- Would I feel excluded if I had to use larger font, had low vision or was blind?
- Would I feel excluded if I didn’t fit into the concept of a sex or gender binary?
- Would I feel excluded if I was deaf or had a hard time hearing?
- Would I feel excluded if I had a larger body?
Racism/Sexism/Other
- Would I have a harder time using the software because I’m not white?
- Could I suffer personal or financial freedom if I wasn’t white?
- Would I feel excluded if I wasn’t white or was mixed-race?
- Would I have a harder time using the software because I’m not male?
- Could I feel excluded or unsafe if I wasn’t male?
- Would I feel excluded if I lived in a multi-family home?
Would I feel included if I was:
- Not white
- Not male
- Not cis gendered
- Disabled
- Not Christian
- Not “Western”
- Not heterosexual
- Left-handed
- “Too young” or “too old”