9 Best Articles in 2021
Google Design
UX for the Next Billion Users
Google Design
2 min read · 408 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
10 min read · 310 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
7 min read · 290 saves · From 2016 · I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design.
UX Collective
Designing for accessibility is not that hard
UX Collective
~15 min read · 258 saves · From 2018 · Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web ❤️
colorbox.io
ColorBox by Lyft Design
colorbox.io
255 saves · From 2018 · Colorbox is a color tool to produce color sets.
medium.com
7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility — Salesforce UX
medium.com
~14 min read · 194 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
188 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 · 164 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 · 142 saves · 2020-11-10 · 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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Sara Soueidan
Accessible Text Labels For All
Sara Soueidan
8 min read · 29 saves · Mar 17th · My talk Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips for Creating more Accessible Front-Ends is now available to watch online. This blog post is an extended transcript for a section of the talk, in which I…
hiddedevries.nl
Accessible front-end components: claims vs reality
hiddedevries.nl
5 min read · 28 saves · Apr 3rd · Not all ‘accessible components’ are created equal. Find out which will work best for your end users with this checklist.
kittygiraudel.com
An accessible toggle
kittygiraudel.com
7 min read · 26 saves · Apr 6th · I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary web developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.
gomakethings.com
There's no such thing as a website or web app that doesn't need to be accessible
gomakethings.com
2 min read · 23 saves · Mar 15th · This weekend on Twitter, I got into an argument discussion with someone about whether or not accessibility is always required when building websites and apps. Today, I wanted to unpack some…
UX Collective
Are bad graphical descriptions better than no graphical descriptions to someone with vision loss?
UX Collective
~12 min read · 19 saves · Mar 19th · More than 125K global websites use overlays rather than fixing their accessibility bugs. AI-generated alt-text used by overlays is not 100…
voorhoede.nl
Why skip-links are important for accessibility
voorhoede.nl
3 min read · 13 saves · Mar 28th · Skip-links play an important role in making a website accessible for everybody. Here I point out why and how you can implement them consistently.
