In our age of ubiquitous digital displays, adults often read in short, opportunistic interludes. In this context of Interlude Reading, we consider if manipulating font choice can improve adult readers’ reading outcomes. Our studies normalize font size by ...

How can we make sure to design with accessible colors?

Here you can find the three talks and the panel discussion from our Smashing Meets for All community event around web accessibility. Enjoy!

WCAG 3 will use a new color contrast method called APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm).It's a big improvement over the current system but there are a lot of changes to get your head around.🧵 pic.twitter.com/yLbujn3hG4— Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 (@DanHollick) December 9, 2021

A small project debunking common accessibility myths.

The APCA Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithim SIMPLE VERSION.

Look at the image above. Don’t you feel some colors are brighter than others? For example, between the yellow and blue: which is brighter?

Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.

The W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 provide a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible to users with disabilities. Following these guidelines will address many of the needs of users with blindness, low vision and other vision impairments; deafness and hearing loss; limited movement and dexterity; speech disabilities; sensory disorders; cognitive and learning disabilities; and combinations of these. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile devices, wearable devices, and other web of things devices. They address various types of web content including static content, interactive content, visual and auditory media, and virtual and augmented reality. The guidelines also address related web tools such as user agents (browsers and assistive technologies), content management systems, authoring tools, and testing tools.

Web Accessibility is a must in every web development project, yet it seems to remain a mystery for many web developers. Like it's something legendary instead of an essential skill needed for the job. There are many misconceptions surrounding Web Accessibility, most of the time fueled by a lack of knowledge (or interest) in the matter. This article is a collection of some of those accessibility misconceptions or myths. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.

You might know something about cognitive and neurological disabilities, but have you ever considered how these impact the way someone interacts with a website? This talk offers an opportunity to learn more.

Look at the image above. Don’t you feel some colors are brighter than others? For example, between the yellow and blue: which is brighter?

Good accessibility programs include things that go above and beyond just compliance with the WCAG guidelines

An open letter about accessibility overlays.

I’m sitting here contemplating my new and rather mysterious condition Long-Covid and wondering how this is changing the way I, and many…

There’s more to a link than just a clickable word or image. So, how do you create the perfect link? Rian tells you in our blog!

There’s more to a link than just a clickable word or image. So, how do you create the perfect link? Rian tells you in our blog!

It’s more important than ever to consider mental health while designing.

In den letzten Wochen und Monaten hab ich mich oft und gerne zum Thema gendersensible Sprache ausgetauscht. Eine der ersten und dringendsten Fragen ist meistens: Stern oder Doppelpunkt? Auf Twitter beobachte ich immer wieder Personen, die sich über die Zeichen echauffieren oder mit einer unsinnigen

Microsoft kommuniziert inklusiv. Warum inklusive Sprache wichtig ist und wie Vielfalt bei Microsoft gelebt wird, lesen Sie in diesem Beitrag.

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… an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS. Pika makes it simple to quickly find colours onscreen, in the format you need, so you can get on with being a speedy, successful designer.

This site shows such schemes, developed with the help of mathematical descriptions of colour differences and the two main types of colour-blind vision. A colour scheme should reflect the type of data shown.

I’ve been reading lots more non-fiction books than normal. And I’m getting increasingly annoyed about footnotes1. Footnotes are a weird skeuomorph hangover from the days of printed text…

Documenting everything through the journey of learning web accessibility.