Accessibility enables people with disabilities to perceive, understand, navigate, interact with, and contribute to the web. Imagine a world where developers know everything there is to know about accessibility. You design it and they build it… perfectly. In this world, only the design itself can cause people with disabilities to have trouble using a product.ContinueContinue reading “7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility — Salesforce UX — Medium”
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4 tips on typography in UI design – InVision Blog
by Chris Bowleron April 6, 2015 Communication plays a vital role in design. Whether you design websites, mobile apps, or wearable UIs, your creations have to clearly communicate their intent and purpose. And since text does a lot of the heavy lifting in communicating purpose, you need a solid understanding of typography. Of course, designingContinueContinue reading “4 tips on typography in UI design – InVision Blog”
Designing For The Elderly: Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently – Smashing Magazine
But consider this: By 2030, around 19% of people in the US will be over 65. Doesn’t sound like a lot? Well it happens to be about the same number of people in the US who own an iPhone today. Which of these two groups do you think Silicon Valley spends more time thinking about?ContinueContinue reading “Designing For The Elderly: Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently – Smashing Magazine”
3 Ways to Improve the Accessibility of Your UI | Usability Matters
There’s a common misconception that an accessible digital product means sacrificing visual design, but there are many subtle changes you can make that will vastly improve the way people interact with and view your brand. Here are a few quick and easy tips you can implement today to help your users. Colour Contrast Colour contrastContinueContinue reading “3 Ways to Improve the Accessibility of Your UI | Usability Matters”
Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart Article
It’s no secret that a lot of people consider scrolljacking and parallax effects annoying and overused. But what if motion does more than just annoy you? What if it also makes you ill? That’s a reality that people with visually-triggered vestibular disorders have to deal with. As animated interfaces increasingly become the norm, more people haveContinueContinue reading “Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity · An A List Apart Article”
How You’re Insulting 285,000,000 Accessibility Users
When we think about Website Accessibility people often think about responsive designs, there’s so much more. No longer are we able to design and create an incredible website with such ease – we used to just come up with a great looking design, as long as those colours worked and you had a navigation, heckContinueContinue reading “How You’re Insulting 285,000,000 Accessibility Users”
ALTA uses accessible design for rehabilitation center
brazilian architecture firm ALTA was commissioned with the expansion of the centro universitário metodista – IPA’scentral campus in porto alegre. the project’s brief asked for the addition of a new physical rehabilitation center that celebrates the tradition of the institution in physical education and physiotherapy teachings. … the central square sits in the middle of the school’s campusContinueContinue reading “ALTA uses accessible design for rehabilitation center”
How Google designs for the blind
All the big technology companies have dedicated teams working on accessibility — making software and hardware features that allow people with disabilities to use them. Employing people who have disabilities is one way to make sure tools are built with accessibility in mind… Someone with perfect vision might not think to design traffic maps thatContinueContinue reading “How Google designs for the blind”
Accessibility Wins, curated by Marcy Sutton
Accessibility Wins Showcasing accessible user interfaces and tools. Submit your favorite website, application or UI pattern. Source: Accessibility Wins, curated by Marcy Sutton
Accessibility Shouldn’t Be a Mystery | edUi Conference
In the past several years, ensuring web content is accessible to people with disabilities has received a lot more attention than ever before. New regulations are coming out that align US government accessibility requirements with the guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative; courts are ruling that the Internet is aContinueContinue reading “Accessibility Shouldn’t Be a Mystery | edUi Conference”
Styling Forms Accessibly | UX Booth
I was waiting at a bus stop when I realized that the person next to me was using sign language over FaceTime on her phone. I had never thought about how video calling benefitted communication for hearing-impaired people. There is so much that accessibility enables. As a UX developer, I try to incorporate accessibility needsContinueContinue reading “Styling Forms Accessibly | UX Booth”
Writing content for responsive design | 4 Syllables
If you’re writing for the web, you’re writing for responsive design. Or you soon will be. In this article, we offer some tips to get your content working well on a range of screen sizes and orientations. … 3 tips to make content work for responsive designs. 1 Write in plain English. 2 Pay attention to contentContinueContinue reading “Writing content for responsive design | 4 Syllables”
Accessibility and Apple Watch apps | Macworld
From an accessibility standpoint, the Apple Watch’s screen is just too small for me to get a lot from apps. As someone with low vision, I try to minimize my interaction with the watch; I don’t want to spend much time looking at the screen for fear of increased eye strain and fatigue. … TheContinueContinue reading “Accessibility and Apple Watch apps | Macworld”
Apple Watch: Invisible feature helps woman who is deaf and registered blind to navigate – News – Gadgets and Tech – The Independent
A woman who is deaf and registered blind has described the way that the Apple Watch has been able to help her navigate and communicate with friends. Molly Watt, an activist and blogger, lives with Usher Syndrome and is deaf and registered blind. Apple products are “more than just up market gadgets” … One ofContinueContinue reading “Apple Watch: Invisible feature helps woman who is deaf and registered blind to navigate – News – Gadgets and Tech – The Independent”
Web Accessibility for Designers | August
Web accessibility makes it easier for people to use the web. It creates a better user experience for a wider audience. It’s not just targeted towards people with disabilities. … “Web accessibility means that people can use the web. Not ‘people with disabilities’. Not ‘blind people and deaf people’. Not ‘people who have cognitive disabilities’ or ‘men who are colourContinueContinue reading “Web Accessibility for Designers | August”
People With Disabilities Still an Afterthought in Tech Design
Progress over the past 25 years has made computing more accessible to people with disabilities. But from design to finish, accessibility is still an afterthought in the race to technological innovation. — Despite breakthroughs in robotics, speech recognition, eye-motion sensors, virtual reality and many other areas, the general design approach to new products still excludes peopleContinueContinue reading “People With Disabilities Still an Afterthought in Tech Design”
Open source, 3D Printed, thought controlled prosthetic hand
3D Printed, thought controlled prosthetic hand for less than $1000. – Opensourced http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 via Meet Easton LaChappelle, The Teen Building A Cheaper, Better Prosthetic Arm.
Tactile Watch – ‘Touch Time’
On Kickstarter is a beautifully designed time-piece called ‘The Bradley’ – made for wearers – including the blind and visually impaired — to tell time through touch rather than sight. Instead of traditional non-visual designs allowing one to ‘feel’ the watch hands,or rely on audible read time, “The Bradley” uses two ball bearings: oneContinueContinue reading “Tactile Watch – ‘Touch Time’”
Wheelchair-accessible version of the NYC Taxi
A universal, accessible taxi fleet is something to aspire to, and IMHO Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s push to standardize the NY city’s taxi fleet with a single, universal vehicle is to be applauded. This Nissan vehicle looks the ticket. Though I ‘m not sure how most electric wheelchairs would fit in lengthwise. I look forward to seeingContinueContinue reading “Wheelchair-accessible version of the NYC Taxi”
Keyboard Access for Google Maps
Web Axe points to an article where Patrick H. Lauke provides a solution to making Google Maps keyboard accessible by retrofitting keyboard access into google maps. (Obviously JavaScript is still required.) Also, Google Maps provides a text-only option, which is nice for those using assistive devices, mobile devices, low or costly bandwidth, etc. I’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Keyboard Access for Google Maps”
Bicycle Design for People with Disabilities | Future Technology
Great to see some good asthetic thought as well as pure functionality put into accessible design in this bicycle. From the Tuvie site: Bicycle designer Gavin Smith has come up with a new bicycle design that will help people with disabilities to ride the bicycle independently. Sometimes disabilities like cerebral palsy can affect the basicContinueContinue reading “Bicycle Design for People with Disabilities | Future Technology”
Modeling Second Life virtual objects in the Physical – Paper Prototyping
I recently came across this site called Export To World which offers a method of taking virtual objects created in Second Life and creating a physical paper model of it in First Life. In effect making physical objects from virtual ones. Novel concept you say, but so what? Well, think of the situation where aContinueContinue reading “Modeling Second Life virtual objects in the Physical – Paper Prototyping”
AlarMe – Alert watch with style
AlarMe is a very unique watch that has the ability to alert those who cannot hear an audible alarm by vibration. Multidirectional microphones that can register a drastic change in ambient sound level, or pick up specially asigned frequencies alert the user. The LED lights and face alert the user as to what the alarmContinueContinue reading “AlarMe – Alert watch with style”
