
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 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.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 7 minutes Labelling is a positive strategy. Labels make a complex concept understandable, actionable, and memorable. Bad ones stigmatise, discriminate, or cause offence.
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: < 1 minutes Just because it is accessible does not mean it is inclusive. Dog Poo is Accessible – you don’t want to wade thru it.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Investigating the implementation of the prefers-reduced-motion setting for vestibular disorders
Reading Time: 12 minutes Adding usability and accessibility to special HTML characters and punctuation for screen reader and visual users
Reading Time: 8 minutes A decade later, can we use the HTML Details and Summary tags inclusively to replace expand and collapse accordions accessibly with and without JS and CSS?
Reading Time: 3 minutes When inspecting products for inclusive code strategies, I regularly run across custom HTML tags, or ‘extended’ HTML belonging to web components. They are usually comprised of DIV and SPAN soup and a style block. ARIA labelling is more often than not omitted and fixed pixel units are common, so their responsiveness is limited. The explanation […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The complexities of legacy browser web components are always up for debate. Here, we put the humble abbr tag under the microscope.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I adapted a coded clock from W3C Schools (home of the accessible clock canvas) on the Learning Too website’s Articles page. It’s a fun piece of bling drawn into an HTML5 canvas using JavaScript. Online Tutorials YouTube channel demonstrates a lighter-weight HTML, CSS, and JavaScript clock. Both clocks lack inclusive design. Any assumption that our screen […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our visual designer plans a section with a heading and four numbered areas to describe four steps or areas to explore in our product. You know the thing. In this scenario: The code strategy is not specified. The developers use some CMS or framework or other, which makes their lives easy and adds weight to […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes Prototype v.3. is now online in Beta. Problem I created an online bookshelf to help me find and copy citations and references to paste into study documents. It works well when considering that I am not a developer and the page is a prototype. In class, our tutor Stephan gave us a 50-min app design […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps, “winning” is too strong a word? In any case, my relationship with WordPress ended today. I reverted to Dreamweaver. And then I felt shame. Defeat. And I can’t let the little beggar win? So, I played around (fought) and learned (broke) things, which is what I love best about challenges and bending software to […]