9 Best Articles in 2020
Google Design
UX for the Next Billion Users
Google Design
1 min read · 410 saves · From 2017 · Learn about the research and design methods behind Google’s global products with this collection of articles, best practices, and design methods
viljamis.com
Typography for User?Interfaces
viljamis.com
9 min read · 306 saves · From 2016 · Back in 2004, when I had just started my career, sIFR was the hottest thing out there. It was developed by Shaun Inman and it embedded custom fonts in a?small Flash movie, which coul...
Backchannel
How the Web Became Unreadable
Backchannel
6 min read · 289 saves · From 2016 · I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design.
colorbox.io
ColorBox by Lyft Design
colorbox.io
252 saves · From 2018 · Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets.
UX Collective
Designing for accessibility is not that hard
UX Collective
~15 min read · 250 saves · From 2018 · Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web ??
medium.com
7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility — Salesforce UX
medium.com
~13 min read · 186 saves · From 2015 · Accessibility enables people with disabilities to perceive, understand, navigate, interact with and contribute to the web.
accessibility.blog.gov.uk
Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
accessibility.blog.gov.uk
185 saves · From 2016 · Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai?is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital
Smashing Magazine
Stop Designing For Only 85% Of Users: Nailing Accessibility In Design
Smashing Magazine
20+ min read · 163 saves · From 2017 · As designers, we like to think we are solution-based. But whereas we wouldn’t hesitate to call out a museum made inaccessible by a lack of wheelchair ramps, many of us still remain somewhat oblivious…
Nieman Lab
ProPublica experiments with ultra-accessible plain language in stories about people with disabilities ? Nieman Journalism Lab
Nieman Lab
4 min read · 131 saves · Nov 10th · Sarah Scire · ProPublica's plain language experiment is a first for a mainstream news organization. Disability experts say it shouldn't be the last.
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Designing Furniture With a 7:1 Color Contrast Ratio Makes a Huge Difference for the Visually Impaired
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2 min read · 73 saves · Dec 13th · For furniture designers, color is primarily about aesthetics; the designer chooses colors they like, or that they feel will have market appeal. But the designers at HomePro, a Thailand-based retailer…
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Alt vs Figcaption
thoughtbot
6 min read · 52 saves · Dec 1st · Describing images with the alt attribute and figcaption element.
Mozilla
VoiceOver Preview for macOS Firefox
Mozilla
2 min read · 22 saves · Dec 15th · Asa Dotzler · For the better part of two decades, Mozilla has been building browsers that are highly accessible for users with disabilities. While we’ve worked to ensure that people with a wide ...
Smashing Magazine
Making Websites Easier To Talk To — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine
5 min read · 17 saves · Dec 10th · Modern websites aren’t inseparable from screens any more. Between phone assistants, home speakers, and screen readers, more and more people are using the web without even looking at it. Websites need…
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Accessibility | 2020
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20+ min read · 16 saves · Dec 9th · Accessibility chapter of the 2020 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, media, ease of navigation, and compatibility with assistive technologies.
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How Accessible Were This Year's Games?
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15 saves · Dec 11th · It's time for my annual investigation into the accessibility of the year's biggest games. From Cyberpunk to Demon's Souls, and from Miles Morales to Valhalla...
