
Reading Time: 2 minutes Unlock the power of inclusive avatars! Discover why alt text for avatars is essential for accessibility, SEO, and richer user experiences.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Unlock the power of inclusive avatars! Discover why alt text for avatars is essential for accessibility, SEO, and richer user experiences.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Designers who believe inclusive content is “over-empathising” don’t understand the problem. We’re designing for all abilities and not a disability.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Like Sydik (2007), I believe alternative texts are the litmus test of accessible design. So is the Back to Top link, and its inclusive design is open to debate.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Carnivores, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans are offered very different experiences from omnivores in cafes and restaurants. It’s equal to discrimination.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Create inclusive content that shifts our user experience (UX) beyond accessibility. Try replacing ableist and vague content to add inclusion and precision.
Reading Time: 10 minutes My Basic User Journey (BUJ) content tool guides our design thinking of digital information and flow between our user and our business. Is it still useful today?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Content design is an empathetic UI and UX craft. Presenting a price reduction from $y to $x needs work with inclusive HTML and CSS. It’s not all done in Figma.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Arrays of Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary interactions are a familiar pattern. Does their content, taxonomic, and visual design assist or compound our experience?
Reading Time: 5 minutes HTML offers a choice of emphasis for individual words and blocks of content. Let’s create an inclusive experience of emphasis beyond using an em tag.
Reading Time: 7 minutes The native HTML list nomenclature and a lack of punctuation are a barrier to some of our readers. A little CSS and JavaScript improves the inclusive experience.
Reading Time: 23 minutes Legalese and compliance copy is the pillar of trust when customers agree to our terms. It’s the specialist language of law. How do we make legalese accessible?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Why embed a PDF inside our HTML? Isn’t it odd? Our digital medium is HTML. It’s a wonderful space offering accessibility, beauty, inclusion, and versatility.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I dislike off-the-shelf content management systems (CMS). They allow anyone to publish content to the Web. That’s fantastic! If only you would deploy them accessibly!
Reading Time: 22 minutes An accessibility engineer complied with WCAG SC 1.1.1 and broke 13 others. This case study closes the gaps between accessible and inclusive assessment design.
Reading Time: 6 minutes We should stop writing the “and/or” conjunction. Its visual meaning is ambiguous and the audible experience is horrible when announced as, “and slash or”. We can design an improved experience.
Reading Time: 2 minutes When specialised vocabulary exceeds a readability score of Grade 8, then replace it with something that doesn’t. I found the ideal phrase is, “ice cream”.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Visual ableism must dissolve from our HCI. It’s time we revisited our keyboard layouts and functions.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Demonstrating an improved and inclusive UX of lists for visual and non-visual readers
Reading Time: 5 minutes Thinking about those lozenge-shaped UI components designers use for filters and refer to as pills or capsules, and how to code them – properly.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Replace your brand’s negativity with positivity. Words and phrases are as important to our users’ mood as your graphics. Happy writing!