Innovating inaccessibility: designing novel forms of disability
medium.com/@acuity_design/remaking-inaccessibility-designing-novel-forms-of-disability-f7bca50773c5I was at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. They have a new entrance plaza. It looks lovely. It does however, include a new form of textured paving that is quite awesomely bad for…
Five Ways in Which Artificial Intelligence Changes the Face of Web Accessibility - 24 Accessibility
24a11y.com/2017/five-ways-in-which-ai-changes-the-face-of-web-accessibility/Denis Boudreau gives us a prospective sense of where we’re headed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and what this means for accessibility and inclusion.
Starbucks’ Plan to Ban Straws Will Harm Disabled People | Bitch Media
bitchmedia.org/article/the-straw-ban-harms-disabled-peopleStraws are easy to target, but cities and companies still rely on environmentally harmful practices.
How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C
w3.org/WAI/teach-advocate/accessible-presentations/Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn’t hear the joke? Be careful not to leave out information for some people in your audience. For example, if you say “you can read it on the slide”, you are probably excluding people who cannot see the slide.
Considerations when writing alt text – Shopify UX
ux.shopify.com/considerations-when-writing-alt-text-a9c1985a8204Alt text. We know it’s something that can be added to images on the web, but what is it really? Who is it for? Why should we care? And, perhaps most important, how do we write it? Alt text, or…
How the Web Became Unreadable | WIRED
wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design.
Designing Systematic Colors – UX Planet
uxplanet.org/designing-systematic-colors-b5d2605b15cMineral UI is the open source design system that CA Technologies is building for use by all of our products. Color is a core building block of any design system, and it has proven to be one of the…