Category: Design & UX
Color Contrast, Beyond the Basics
Beth Raduenzel explores why passing WCAG color contrast requirements does not always create an accessible experience. She examines links, focus indicators, navigation, toggles, form controls, and maps, showing how designers can improve contrast and usability for people with low vision.
SVG, Icon Fonts, and Accessibility: A Case Study
Dennis Lembrée examines the accessibility of SVG icons, icon fonts, sprites, and images, comparing their strengths and limitations. Using Easy Chirp as a case study, he explores screen reader support, keyboard access, performance, styling, and the practical tradeoffs of each approach.
How do you Convince a Company that Tames Dinosaurs to Design Inclusively?
Dominic Berry explores how to convince oil and gas companies to embrace inclusive design. Using real-world examples involving color blindness, deafness, mobility, aging, usability, and safety, Berry demonstrates why accessibility is both good design and smart business.
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Five Ways in Which Artificial Intelligence Changes the Face of Web Accessibility
Denis Boudreau examines how artificial intelligence could transform web accessibility through image and facial recognition, automated lip-reading, text summarization, and real-time translation. He explores how these emerging technologies could reduce barriers and improve digital inclusion for people with disabilities.
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Accessibility First: Rethinking the Way We Approach Website Design and Development
Carie Fisher explores an accessibility-first approach to web design and development. She explains how inclusive design, accessible components, typography, structure, color, forms, and media can improve usability while making accessibility an integral part of the development process.
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