Posts Tagged ‘accessibility’

Intro: Can you imagine how people with visual impairments use their Apple devices without the help from a sighted person? Apple provides an amazing accessibility feature in iOS called Voiceover, which makes the iPhone easier to operate for the blind and sight impaired. To make a long story short, Voiceover is capable of describing an […]

More than 16 million people are living with a cognitive impairment in the U.S. That is a lot of people. That means almost all of us know someone with a cognitive impairment. And, for most companies, that means that a number of customers—or potential customers—will have a cognitive impairment. Many people with cognitive impairments are […]

As designers, there are a lot of things to keep in mind when creating a site that is accessible to everyone. Jesse Hausler, principal accessibility specialist at Salesforce, touched on these in his post, 7 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility. Here are three of my favorite takeaways from his post, along with […]

As touched on in our last blog post, inclusive design is more than designing for people with vision or hearing impairments. It’s also designing for someone with a broken arm, a slow network connection, a cognitive impairment, or even our aging population. It’s about designing for everyone. We should be aware of the differing abilities, […]

In a recent presentation, John Seitz, UX architect at Perficient Digital, discussed the importance of inclusive design and how considering accessibility while designing and building your website has value for your company. Inclusive design is the creation of products or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. As […]

I was surprised to know that designing for people with various forms of literacy issues would benefit literate users. In one study presented in a session I am now attending, I learned it does! Another surprise, about 50% of U.S. citizens report some type of literacy problem. As a result, when we think about digital transformation […]

Many a times, when I start a new project, often the client gets excited when the word ‘bootstrap’ or ‘foundation’ comes around during the inception phase. They want to know more and get excited. They hope that their site would look great if is it built with a framework and typically look towards the UX […]

Last week I participated in AccessU Summit, a daylong online conference sponsored by Knowbility and Environments for Humans. I have ‘sketched out’ some of the key ideas I took from each session, and I’ve grouped them into sections to steer you in the direction of the material that interests you the most. In addition to these, […]

For some time now I have contemplated, as a design practitioner, is my perception of design for users inclusive, empathic and universal? This has been nagging at me for some time. Actually it’s been calling my name, “Psst. Lisa, you’re behind the curve in your understanding of designing the user experience for people that are, […]

Below are some of the basic important techniques a front end developer could start incorporating right from the beginning, into a project that has to conform to WCAG 2.0 standards. Hierarchical Heading Organization Make sure the headings on every page of the website is in an hierarchical order, beginning from h1 to h6, properly nested […]

Microsoft published an article on their Internet Explorer blog yesterday that discussed their plans for supporting older versions of IE, and the web development community has been blowing up ever since.  I have seen many eager Interneters making loud claims to the tune of, “IE8 is dead!  We no longer have to support older versions of […]

Back again with another recap of the STLUX conference sessions!  My previous post in this series covered Practical Interaction Design for Developers, a session by David Ortinau.  Where that session discussed how developers can educate themselves about user actions and expectations in regards to the design, this session covers another aspect of a user’s expectations […]