Category: Accessibility
Make it work!
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Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong.
Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the Biden Administration chose Calibri for their digital communications: to include…
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Accessibility 101
Nat Tarnoff covers the basics.
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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How to Join Blue Beanie Day: Wear and Share!
Saturday, 30 November 2024, marks the 17th annual Blue Beanie Day celebration. It’s hard to believe, but web standards fan Douglas Vos conceived of this holiday way back in ’07: The origin of the name…
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What happened to the Share button in Zoom?
Zoom has always included a clickable button/badge at the top left of its primary meeting interface window. Click the badge to copy the URL of that meeting. You can then, with just one more click…
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This Web of Ours, Revisited
Why did leading designers in 2000 look down their nose at the web? And are things any better today?
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CAPTCHA excludes disabled web users
The W3C explains how CAPTCHA excludes disabled users, and suggests alternatives that may be kinder and more reliable.
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A faster horse
“The user is never wrong” means, when a user snags on a part of your UX that doesn’t work for her, she’s not making a mistake, she’s doing you a favor. To benefit from this…
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Immersive Content and Usability
As the lines between our physical and digital surroundings continue to blur, it’s more important than ever to design usable and accessible content for our ever-expanding array of contexts. In 2021, A Book Apart and…
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Blue Beanie Day 2021
Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards is celebrated around the world on November 30. Hey, that’s today. So how can you help? Glad you asked! Take a self-portrait wearing a blue beanie (toque,…
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A panel on accessibility, design inclusion and ethics, hiring and retaining diverse talent, and landing a job in UX.
It’s one thing to seek diverse talent to add to your team, another to retain the people you’ve hired. Why do so many folks we bring in to add depth and breadth of experience to…
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In Defense of Font Size Widgets
Most of the sites we’ve designed in the past few years have not had a text size widget, but I believe this was due to our privileged assumptions and biases, and not to the reality…
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Accessibility Whack-a-Mole
WHAT do you do when an accessibility solution you’ve devised for one group creates a fresh accessibility dilemma for another group? Through the prism of typeface choice, Eleanor Ratliff relates how she and her team…
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This year more than ever, Blue Beanie Day matters
AT FIRST GLANCE, November 2016 has bigger fish to fry than a small, cult holiday celebrated by web developers and designers. Each day since November 8, 2016 has brought new, and, to some of us,…
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Solve the Right Problem: Derek Featherstone on designing for extremes
12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – ? 3: Derek Featherstone was the 10th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco, which ended Wednesday. His session, Extreme Design, showed how creating great experiences…