When we talk about scale, we think about systems, organizational patterns, and ways to optimize design. We want to make it easy for everyone who works in product to contribute. Most organizations use a single source of truth to organize components known as a design system. Design systems are the secret sauce to scale andContinueContinue reading “Designing Accessible Experiences at Scale”
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UNOBRUSH | World’s First Hasselfree Anti-Cavity Toothbrush
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Reprogrammable braille could shrink books to a few pages
Harvard’s concept for reprogrammable braille Braille displays have made the digital world more accessible to those with vision issues, but readers who prefer the portability of a book haven’t had that upgrade. Even a typical book might require over a dozen volumes of braille paper,ContinueContinue reading “Reprogrammable braille could shrink books to a few pages”
WebAIM: Constructing a POUR Website – Putting People at the Center of the Process
Motivations to Create Accessible Web Content There are at least three main kinds of reasons that might motivate people to create accessible web content: To improve the lives of people with disabilities (human-centered motivations) To capitalize on the a wider audience or consumer base (marketing or economic-centered motivations) To avoid lawsuits and/or bad press (publicContinueContinue reading “WebAIM: Constructing a POUR Website – Putting People at the Center of the Process”
Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design
There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired. This number includes anyone from legally blind, to those with less than 20/20 vision. This short guide, written during the creation of the Contrast MacOS app, will help you achieve the accessibility standards outlined in the WCAG 2.0, specifically with foreground and background color when it comesContinueContinue reading “Color Contrast Crash Course for Interface Design”
Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion — Smashing Magazine
… One of the most common problems when designing for accessibility is knowing what needs you should design for. It’s not that we intentionally design to exclude users, it’s just that “we don’t know what we don’t know.” So, when it comes to accessibility, there’s a lot to know. How do we go about understandingContinueContinue reading “Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion — Smashing Magazine”
Asos is praised for ‘leading the way’ after developing disability-friendly clothing line
Asos is praised for ‘leading the way’ in inclusive fashion after developing disability-friendly clothing line in collaboration with a Paralympic athlete An image of a model using a wheelchair on ASOS has been praised by shoppers The brand hired BBC’s Chloe Ball-Hopkins to model their new jumpsuit Chloe received a flood of support from othersContinueContinue reading “Asos is praised for ‘leading the way’ after developing disability-friendly clothing line”
An accessible process for inclusive design (Google I/O ’18) – YouTube
Google spells out accessible, inclusive, usable It would be good if all designers took their lead from the likes of Apple and Google: inclusion, accessibility and usabilty are about the design process. Apart from clearly explaining how these terms are linked and can be used together, Google’s half hour video also has some tips and tools forContinueContinue reading “An accessible process for inclusive design (Google I/O ’18) – YouTube”
Pinterest Just Redesigned Its App For Blind People
… Pinterest, like all mainstream apps, has a contingent of blind users (though the company admits to not tracking them). Many use Pinterest simply to bookmark stories on the web they’d like to read later. And those who don’t use the service might like to, if they were better welcomed. “We asked one user, wouldContinueContinue reading “Pinterest Just Redesigned Its App For Blind People”
Advocating for Accessible UI Design | CSS-Tricks
Accessibility is a hot topic these days, and the older we web-makers get, the hotter it’s going to become! That might be a snarky outlook, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s about time we start designing the web for everyone because the web was meant to be for everyone, and less and less areContinueContinue reading “Advocating for Accessible UI Design | CSS-Tricks”
Accessibility: Usability for all | Interaction Design Foundation
Let’s examine a topic we often take for granted to understand what it’s really about. Doing so, you’ll be able to proceed with a broader appreciation of how users engage your designs. … A design is only useful if it’s accessible to the user: any user, anywhere, anytime. We often mistake the concept of accessibility as involving people with disabilities. However, we’re all disabledContinueContinue reading “Accessibility: Usability for all | Interaction Design Foundation”
Accessibility Through Semantic HTML ◆ 24 ways
Working on Better, a tracker blocker, I spend an awful lot of my time with my nose in other people’s page sources. I’m mostly there looking for harmful tracking scripts, but often notice the HTML on some of the world’s most popular sites is in a sad state of neglect. What does neglected HTML look like?ContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Through Semantic HTML ◆ 24 ways”
Web Accessibility 101: Design for All People, Not Most
Web Accessibility 101: Design for All People, Not Most B Web design is about accessibility. Most web designers aim to create products for the largest swath of people within their audience, casting their designs out like gaping nets to yield them the greatest influx of users. And while there’s logic to that design principle, itContinueContinue reading “Web Accessibility 101: Design for All People, Not Most”
How Current Design Trends Impact Web Accessibility
“You are not your users.” “Involve people with disabilities in user testing.” “The average user does not exist.” “Design for the extremes, and the middle will take care of itself.” We hear these phrases all the time, yet a lot of people still believe that accessibility is mostly a quality assurance or developer’s responsibility, somethingContinueContinue reading “How Current Design Trends Impact Web Accessibility”
Important things to in mind for Accessibility & Usability of an application
A mobile application is a medium where a user can get all the information related to your services and products. Here, UI (User Interface) and UX (User Experience) part plays an important role. It can help you to increase the acceptability of an app. Accordingly, it increases the usability of an application will inflate theContinueContinue reading “Important things to in mind for Accessibility & Usability of an application”
Accessible website design for users with disabilities lags far behind demand
“The internet is, in essence, broken,” said Todd Bankofier, the CEO of accessibility software company AudioEye. Last week the company announced a partnership with web design firm Dealer Inspire, which makes customer-facing sites for auto retailers, to implement AudioEye’s Ally Toolbar across their entire portfolio. The move “expands our reach immediately, making it much moreContinueContinue reading “Accessible website design for users with disabilities lags far behind demand”
Designing inclusively: Some examples
The video below has lots of examples of designing inclusively in the built environment. There are two key messages: get a diverse group of people together before you start designing, and think about all the extra people you can serve or sell to when you design with everyone in mind. While there are several videos around withContinueContinue reading “Designing inclusively: Some examples”
Inclusive – Microsoft Design
Inclusive Design at Microsoft It’s in our mission statement: empower every person on the planet to achieve more. Designing for inclusivity opens up our experiences and reflects how people adapt to the world around them. … Our inclusive design principles Recognize exclusion Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. As Microsoft designers, we seekContinueContinue reading “Inclusive – Microsoft Design”
ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers
Labels ARIA provides several mechanisms for adding labels and descriptions to elements. In fact, ARIA is the only way to add accessible help or description text. Let’s look at the properties ARIA uses to create accessible labels. aria-label aria-label allows us to specify a string to be used as the accessible label. This overrides any otherContinueContinue reading “ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers”
Accessibility for Visual Design
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As designers, we need to remember that the same is true of color and all visual abilities. It’s estimated that 4.5% of the global population experience color blindness (that’s 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women), 4% suffer from low vision (1 inContinueContinue reading “Accessibility for Visual Design”
How Design for Accessibility Drives Innovation for All
Comcast recently made a big splash in the world of assistive technology by launching the industry’s first voice-enabled television user interface, or “talking TV guide,” which gives blind and visually impaired customers the ability to independently explore and navigate thousands of shows and movies. Comcast’s vice president of accessibility Tom Wlodkowski, who is blind, saidContinueContinue reading “How Design for Accessibility Drives Innovation for All”
The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience
User Experience (UX) is critical to the success or failure of a product in the market but what do we mean by UX? All too often UX is confused with usability which describes to some extent how easy a product is to use and it is true that UX as a discipline began with usabilityContinueContinue reading “The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience “
Former Microsoft design director on shaping Hololens, Xbox and Cortana with inclusive design thinking
https://youtu.be/h42RThsvXxs Kat Holmes is the former principal director of Inclusive Design at Microsoft. In this episode, we talk about the definition of inclusive design, take an inside look at her “special ops” design unit, and dive into the best method for deploying human-centered design. Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Former Microsoft design directorContinueContinue reading “Former Microsoft design director on shaping Hololens, Xbox and Cortana with inclusive design thinking”
Designing for Accessibility: The Ultimate in UX
Designing for users with a broad range of abilities can bring challenges. But, before you start thinking “Great, more stuff to limit my rockstar designs” — recognize this: Smart designs aren’t created to impress your peers. Smart designs (and smart designers!) use design elements like color, placement, and interaction in very intentional ways to help site visitorsContinueContinue reading “Designing for Accessibility: The Ultimate in UX”
Prototyping accessibility in web and mobile UI design
Adaptable, interactive and coherent prototypes for users with disabilities. Covering accessibility in the prototyping phase of web and app design. Pay close attention to color, contrast and visual hierarchy … Make your interactive UI elements more interactive … Don’t crowd me! … Make your app accessible by being adaptable … “Flexibility is the key to ensuringContinueContinue reading “Prototyping accessibility in web and mobile UI design”
