We’re a volunteer-led team helping public institutions tackle the accessibility and usability challenges that keep people from services they can’t do without. Free, through supervised student teams.
Every engagement serves an institution, develops a practitioner, and adds to what the field knows
Expert-supervised accessibility audits, usability evaluations and UX research for public universities, community colleges and state and local government, delivered by trained student teams.
Gain structured, portfolio-worthy professional experience in UX research, usability engineering, and accessibility under the mentorship of experienced practitioners.
A growing pipeline of trained usability and accessibility professionals, and methods and findings published so institutions we never work with can use them.
Every UX Impact Network engagement follows a structured, quality-controlled process.
We identify public institutions with usability and accessibility needs and match them with a trained student team.
Student teams complete methodology training covering WCAG testing, usability evaluation, user research, and accessible design, then begin the engagement.
Teams conduct comprehensive usability evaluations and accessibility audits, including user research, heuristic analysis, IA review, and WCAG compliance testing.
Partner institutions receive a professional assessment report with findings ranked by severity, remediation guidance their own staff can act on, and a follow-up assessment measuring progress.
Whether you're a public institution that needs usability and accessibility expertise, or a student who wants real-world experience, there's a place for you at UX Impact Network.