Design

Accessibility is an important consideration of building a better web. Andrew shares what to think about and tools to use when creating a visually accessible web.

Beth Raduenzel covers the official guidance on color contrast from WCAG, then goes over and beyond to cover aspects that truly consider usability.

How do you let your users chose any color, but still make sure that the colors make your app useful and accessible? You create rules.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As designers, we need to remember that the same is true of color, and all visual abilities. UX Booth author and visual UX designer Nick Babich has a list of how-tos, to help make every design both beautiful and usable.

The visual interface is an obvious place to begin digging into accessibility. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the most common visual impairments, focusing on color-blindness to explain how you can make small changes to your workflow and products to ensure you’re not alienating users.

Enabling design & development teams to use colors deliberately for improved consistency in product

The A11Y Project puts it best, and most bluntly: “Accessibility is hard.” If you’re feeling lost, start with color contrast.

It’s cool to hate comic sans. But it’s also problematic.

Notes from the Inclusive Design and Accessibility meetup, 20 February 2017 in Amsterdam.

Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide. This means that for every 100…

This guideline will introduce accessibility thinking and how to design usable experiences for everyone.

Contrast is a critical factor in web design, it’s important to get right because it has a strong influence on the visual aesthetic, but it’s especially important for readability and accessibility of text on the page. It’s not a revolutionary idea to suggest that we use Less or Sass to help choose an appropriate text color for a particular background. There are plenty of examples of this, but what is the best way?

Are you checking color contrast in your design for optimal readability? Learn more from @troz's simple method.

According to Colour Blind Awareness 4.5% of the population are color-blind. If your audience is mostly male this increases to 8%. Designing for color-blind people can be easily forgotten because most designers aren’t color-blind. In this article I provide 13 tips to improve the experience for color-blind people – something which can often benefit people with normal vision too. There are many types of color blindness but it comes down to not seeing color clearly, getting colors mixed up, or not being able to differentiate between certain colors.

Last month WordPress contributors approved accessibility coding standards for the core handbook. All new and updated code will need to conform with WCAG 2.0 level AA guidelines. With WordPress core…

Every time someone finds out I’m color blind, I’m always hit with the same question: “So, what color is this?” 95% of the time I’ll answer…

Every time someone finds out I’m color blind, I’m always hit with the same question: “So, what color is this?” 95% of the time I’ll answer…

Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!