Reading Time: 2 minutes After years of admiring and learning from the sidelines, I’ve created a CodePen account. It’s a surprisingly creative and fun space, and I note a problem with distraction.
Writing out success
Reading Time: 3 minutes Content design thinking for success messages: How to reframe success as a natural outcome of our digital services with examples to get you writing successfully.
Unlock the power of inclusive avatars
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.
AI’s recanted view
Reading Time: 2 minutes A Chat GPT tool ignored my UI writing guideline to replace “view” with active terms for calls to action like, “Read” and “Open”. When challenged, it recanted.
Including the Back to Top link
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.
A diet of discrimination
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.
Inclusion with content
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.
Dialling in to the Basic User Journey
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?
In time, has been will be a has been
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a tense comparison between habit and writing standards. We’re directed to avoid passive writing. The conclusion is that, “has been” is a has been now.
An inclusive price update
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.
Primary to tertiary button hierarchies
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?
Including emphasis
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.
Inclusive nested list nomenclature
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.
Fun image erections
Reading Time: 4 minutes Browsing my favourite YouTube channels, I found an ideal lunchtime project. Online Tutorials featured a snatty CSS image erection effect. It made me think of a 4-fold flyer I created for an art show. It was ideal to play with.
How do we make legalese accessible?
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?
Pffft to embedding PDF inside HTML
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.
An elephantine dislike for off-the-shelf CMS
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!
When compliance fails to include pie (case study)
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.
Divided over slashes
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.
Readability testing with ice cream
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”.