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Designer who makes useful, usable and accessible services. Has an occasional newsletter and blog posts that deal with topics on accessible design components and common pitfalls. His tips and guidelines for form design are a must.

Product designer & accessibility advocate. Runs the Access Guide website and has made many resources about accessibility.

Senior Inclusive Designer that specialises in building inclusive products.

A UX designer who frequently writes about accessibility

An inclusive design advocate, writer, developer, and speaker.

Inclusive design engineer and trainer that works with companies and agencies around the world, building Web user interfaces and digital products with focus on responsive design, accessibility, performance, and cutting-edge tech.

A front-end developer and inclusive designer passionate about accessibility, dataviz, and building ethical technology.

CEUD is dedicated to enabling the design of environments that can be accessed, understood and used regardless of a person's age, size, ability or disability.

A tool for testing accessible colour combinations in print. This is useful for exhibition design.

This is a guide to foreground colour accessibility on a background image. It is intended as guide for designers and developers to test if their design solution is accessible. Change the text size, colour and position. It will check the dimensions of the textarea against the background image.

This design system documents the styles, components and templates available to use on your website.

Use this tool to check that there is enough contrast between link text, regular text, and the background colour.

A tool that brings attention and understanding to how colour contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.

Tables of contents provide a page overview and direct access to specific sections. When designing a table of contents, carefully compare different placement and styling options to maximise usability.

Fortunately, accessibility has been discussed a lot lately, but evidently, some biases and myths are still to be debunked.

Testing a form for accessibility can be boiled down to 6 high level goals.

In comparison to in-context filters, advanced search gives users an unnecessarily bad experience.

In this blog post, we will explore various strategies and best practices to bridge the gap between designers and developers focusing on accessibility.

In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.

With one billion people aged 60 or older worldwide, inclusivity is more important than ever. Learn how to create digital experiences that empower independence and competence for older adults while enhancing usability for all.

A short guide on how to make custom selects, modals, autosuggest, date pickers, carousels and dynamically-loaded content more accessible

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn more about accessible and inclusive design.

Practical guidelines to prevent rage taps and rage clicks with accessible tap targets for icons, links and buttons — on desktop and on mobile. With useful techniques and guidelines.

While accordions can simplify long content pages and minimize scrolling, they diminish content visibility and increase interaction cost. On desktop, use accordions for content-heavy pages where users will not need to access content under several accordions.

A process for adding Sign Language to videos and some tips.

Accessible websites are still in the minority, but accessible apps are even rarer.

Andy Baio takes a shot at visualising what is like to live with colourblindness

Helpful guide on ways to build an accessible chatbot.

Checkboxes allow users to select one, some, or none of items from a list. They can be used standalone, in checkbox lists, or nested checkbox lists.

Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana García explains how her team at Mercado Libre tackled the challenge by creating guiding principles for applying animation to user interfaces and incorporating them into the team’s design system.

Discover best practices for creating an inclusive eCommerce experience. Learn how to optimise your website for accessibility and expand your reach.

10 dos and don’ts to keep in mind when designing accessible data visualisations

Best practices when using various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content. These practices can help you to make the text over images more accessible while retaining an aesthetically pleasing look.

In Part 2 of the series, Hannah Milan reviews in detail various accessible text over images techniques for designing your web and mobile app content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds

With an estimated one in every eight individuals worldwide surpassing the age of 60, who are actively adopting online shopping, the need for user-friendly interfaces tailored to their needs becomes apparent. Explore the guidelines to help you design inclusive products for all, particularly for an older audience and your future self.

An overview of simple interactions for voice command or speech recognition software users, and the accessibility barriers that can emerge.

Design effective error messages by ensuring they are highly visible, provide constructive communication, and respect user effort.

Form functionality that websites often don’t consider. These strategies can make your forms more usable for all users and accessible for users with disabilities.

This is about designing forms that everyone can use and complete as quickly as possible. Because nobody actually wants to use your form. They just want the outcome of having used it.

Accessibility for data visualisation extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually useful. This article focuses on WCAG 2.1 standards, and it covers many techniques for embracing accessibility standards to empower better, more accessible visual design.

High quality captions and transcripts are good for business and a necessity for millions of people. Auto captions are not the best accessibility practice. Learn firsthand from a deaf speaker in the 8-minute video.

The BBC decided to create a bespoke typeface super accessible typeface.

Using Figma plugins and annotation kits.

Learn how to create engaging, WCAG-compliant animations that prioritize accessibility and create great user experiences.

As a designer, we can make the lives of our users easier by designing forms to be straightforward to complete and accessible to all. Here are some practical tips on how to design accessible forms.

An article about common mistakes and the best way to highlight required and optional form fields

In this article, we’ll start with what charts and graphs need to be considered accessible. But, just because it’s accessible, doesn’t mean it’s the best user experience for all types of users. So, we’ll also go over opportunities for creating more usable data visualisations.

Interactive charts can transform data into compelling stories, offering valuable insights at a glance. But what happens when these visual tools are inaccessible to those with visual impairments? In this post, we’ll show you how to ensure your interactive charts are accessible to all users, regardless of their abilities.

In-page links, often embedded in the table of contents, help users navigate to specific content sections on the same page. While research showed increased user familiarity with the design pattern, carefully consider content structures before implementation.

These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. They are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites a broad approach to inclusive design

A 4-part blog series about Accessibility and its interconnection with SEO.

Making text accessible should be part of everyday practice. However, general typographic practices of optimising legibility and readability don’t necessarily go all the way towards making text accessible.

Chatbots can be one of the most frustrating and inaccessible parts of a website. They can also create a quick and wonderful customer experience. It’s all about how you make them…

Standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.

A talk from Axe-con 2022 by Nic Chan

To create accessible and inclusive experiences, you need to pay attention to accessibility throughout your design process, not just at the end.

Are your data visualisations leaving some users behind? Learn essential design principles to create accessible charts for all.

Tips to consider when designing for reduced motion.

8 key tips for accessible typography

UX checklists with best design practices, accessibility guidelines, design system checklist, tables UX checklist, UX research methods, form design UX and flowcharts.

Designing data visualisation to be more visually accessible using patterns, shapes, and high contrast colours

R/GA group creative director Kyle Wheeler looks at how if you design with inclusivity in mind throughout a project, everyone wins.

Rethinking the Carousel: A User Experience Perspective

Accessibility Tips and Tricks for Designers and Developers