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When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect. With the best of intentions (or branding panic) they may seek to force screen readers to announce content as…

Content warning: long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user

A new typeface from Shantell Martin

An interpolating, textured, monospaced variable typewriter font by LettError Type. The typeface does some spectacular interpolation, and is ready for interaction and animation (while compact enough to be used on the web.)

The name of this page is a play on the CSS-Tricks name. My site generally is full of accessibility “tricks”, but this page specifically collects a few other places where I have left accessibility tricks behind. CSS-Tricks Following are links to posts at CSS-Tricks where I (mostly) left comments. Some…

Moritz Fürst is a STS researcher and public communication professional currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

WordPress accessibility is a complex subject because a WordPress website consists of several parts, all of which need to comply with multiple requirements

Alt text is text that describes the appearance and purpose of an image. This blog post will show you how to include alt text in your web applications and documents when you've built them in R.

Innovative software and modes of presentation are helping to broaden access to the literature.

A look at why we need flex wrapping detection in CSS.

Die „Laws of UX“ von Jon Yablonski sind eine Sammlung psychologischer Heuristiken, Phänomene und Effekte. Diese sollen Designern von User Experience (UX) und User Interaction (UI) bei der Planung und Erstellung von Benutzeroberflächen helfen.

Chunking is a concept that originates from the field of cognitive psychology. UX professionals can break their text and multimedia content into smaller chunks to help users process, understand, and remember it better.

by Gabriel Tomescu

Es ist kompliziert Wie oft haben Sie ein digitales Forschungsangebot in Ihrem Browser oder gar auf Ihrem Smartphone geöffnet und gedacht: Mensch, das ist mal ein ansprechendes Design! Und so einfach! Nie? Selten? Das wundert nicht. Im Kontext von Forschungssoftware – und dazu zähle ich digitale Editionen oder Browser-basierte Software – gilt in der Regel: … Interface-Design, UX und die Forschung weiterlesen

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?

Learn how to write meaningful alternative text (alt text) for images, charts, and more.

Preview characters needed to write in the world’s languages. Find which languages and how many speakers your font supports. The database covers over 640 languages.

Am 19.September 1982 wurde das erste Emoticon verschickt :-). Seither verändert sich unsere Welt rasant in Richtung Post-Schrift-Gesellschaft.

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The user-experience articles published in 2022 that our audience read the most.

Two variable, open source fonts from GitHub.

The first typeface designed for Moldova to make communication more open and honest.