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The A11Y Project
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The A11Y Project
1 min read · 2020-07-16 · The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
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Datawrapper
How to pick more beautiful colors
Datawrapper
~11 min read · 2020-09-04 · Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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Adrian Roselli 🗯
a11y = Accessibility
Adrian Roselli 🗯
3 min read · 2020-07-10 · TL;DR: a11y is shorthand for accessibility. Those middle characters are the number one, not lower-case Ls. Say it as A-one-one-Y or A-eleven-Y. Numeronym The a11y you may see on Twitter was not…
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A List Apart
Standards for Writing Accessibly
A List Apart
5 min read · From 2020 · In this excerpt from Writing is Designing, Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle discuss critical accessibility considerations for content authors, including reading order, references to additional cont…
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ArchDaily
How Colors Change the Perception of Interior Spaces
ArchDaily
5 min read · From 2020 · Some possibilities to change environments with colors or contrasts, confusing proportions.
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matthewstrom.com
How to pick the least wrong colors
matthewstrom.com
~15 min read · Jun 2nd · An algorithm for creating color palettes for data visualization
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a11y-style-guide.com
A11Y Style Guide
a11y-style-guide.com
1 min read · From 2017 · This application is a living style guide or pattern library, generated from KSS documented styles...with an accessibility twist. No matter your level of development or accessibility expertise, there…
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UX Collective
Web Accessibility Standards: an overview for designers
UX Collective
~12 min read · From 2020 · The term Accessibility covers a very vast field of standards that comes with a confusing myriad of acronyms.
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Product Hunt 😸
Leonardo - Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio
Product Hunt 😸
From 2019 · Leonardo: an open source contrast-based color generator. Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors.
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