Making work accessible creates a better experience across the board. Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project.
Friedrich Forssman ist vielen Typografieliebhabern und Designern durch die Standardwerke »Detailtypografie« und »Lesetypografie« bekannt. Er ist einer der führenden Buchgestalter Deutschlands. Zusammen mit seiner Frau, der Textildesigerin Cornelia Feyll, hat er seit einigen Jahren Einzelwerke und Reihen für den Reclam-Verlag neu gestaltet, zuletzt die Universal-Bibliothek, auch bekannt als »Reclam-Hefte«. Klassiker wie die Reclam-Hefte neu zu […]
On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility
"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I
Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX
Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.
Thanks to Amy Hupe, I learned that there's such a thing as National Blog Posting Month (#NaBloPoMo for short), and it starts today. So here we go with post n...
I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally…
Barrierefreiheit: Verwaltungsdigitalisierung mit Hürden
Wer sehbehindert ist und einen Personalausweis beantragen möchte, steht buchstäblich vor gleich mehreren Hindernissen. Zwar obliegt die digitale Barrierefreiheit laut Onlinezugangsgesetz den Verwaltungen. Doch sie und die Politik behandeln diese Aufgabe nachrangig und verhindern so gesellschaftliche Teilhabe aller.
Due to the absence of a standard usage for individual icons, text labels are necessary to communicate meaning and reduce ambiguity in an icon-based design.
Der perfekte „Alt-Text“: Wir haben sechs blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen gefragt, welche Bildbeschreibungen ihnen wirklich etwas bringen
Screenreader lesen blinden und sehbehinderten Menschen vor, was auf dem Bildschirm zu sehen ist – auch Bildbeschreibungen, sofern ein Alt-Text hinterlegt ist. Wie ein Alt-Text gestaltet sein muss…
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
Part I in a series that explores inclusive design at Betterment. This post focuses on making the case to remove the ‘gender question’ as well as some takeaways for building inclusive products.
How Our Organization Improved Web Accessibility (Case Study)
In this article, Catherine Houle and Ilknur Eren share how their organization “Understood” removes barriers for people who learn and think differently by combining accessibility and usability in their processes. They also cover basic steps on how to fix common accessibility issues.