Read the latest user experience articles on the practice of designing digital products that are usable by as many people as possible.
October 15, 2020 — Email accessibility matters on all levels. It is increasingly vital for your business to thrive, to say nothing about its unintended benefits. Therefore, it should be taken into account each time you create a digital newsletter.
Read this storySeptember 29, 2020 — Globally, 1 billion people have a near or distant vision impairment impacting how clearly they can see objects, including web pages. Chrome DevTools recently added support for emulating color vision deficiencies, helping you better optimize your pages to be inclusive of users with differing levels of color blindness.
Read this storyAugust 19, 2020 — If you’re not familiar with alternative text — more commonly known as alt text — it’s the written copy that describes the content of an image in a digital space and plays a significant role in making the online world more inclusive. When it comes to crafting effective image descriptions, these are some of the tips that I keep in mind.
Read this storyAugust 14, 2020 — Typefaces are the foundation of accessible visual reading experiences, so choosing a performant typeface that enhances legibility and readability for people with poor vision, learning disabilities, aphasia, dyslexia or low adult literacy is of paramount importance...
Read this storyJuly 21, 2020 — The most efficient way to build accessible websites and apps is to “shift left” by incorporating accessibility testing into the earliest stages of your development and design process.
Read this storyJuly 2, 2020 — For the past two years, WebAIM has performed an accessibility evaluation of the home pages of the top 1,000,000 web sites. Their results show that accessibility errors are still incredibly prevalent, even on popular web sites.
Read this storyJune 11, 2020 — What would your life be like without the internet? Not if it didn’t exist at all, but if you were locked out of it? Would your days be different? Unrecognizable, even? Keeping your answers to that in mind, do you think access to the internet is a human right?
Read this storyJune 6, 2020 — In this 3-part series, we will explore how to build websites that are compliant with the “Americans with Disabilities Act” (ADA) of 1990.
Read this storyJune 5, 2020 — Constructing an equivalent experience may mean changing the way you think about development and design, and potentially reevaluating your existing work. In this article, we'll address common accessibility issues, and how to best go about improving them...
Read this storyMay 21, 2020 — There are 14 million disabled people in the UK, many who rely on website accessibility. But designing for disability results in designs that benefit everybody. To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020, we look at a few features that help just about every user.
Read this storyMay 13, 2020 — Just because you write code that uses ARIA does not mean the ARIA declarations will work as intended. This is the same as expecting modern JavaScript to work on an older browser such as Internet Explorer 11.
Read this storyApril 28, 2020 — The skip navigation is a simple link that navigates the user to a predefined destination, which usually is the main content of the page. It is the first link in the document, so when we start navigating with the tab key, this is the first link we find.
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