May 2022

How to write user stories for accessibility

tetralogical.com

Transforming accessibility requirements (as e.g. derived from WCAG or other norms) into bite-size user stories makes them more tangible, and enable easier implementation.
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2022

A Visual History of Delicious Bookmarks

outer-outer.space

I greatly enjoy reading deep dives into a niche topic – here, Sarah Hibner retraces the history of Delicious, the web's famous bookmarking service that I, too, was a heavy user of back in its golden days of the mid-noughties.
2022

Dieter Rams on who rules the digital world

hustwit.com

I very much enjoyed the documentary “Rams” by Gary Hustwit, drawing a deep portrait of this extraordinary designer. Having shaped the place for technology in people’s lives over decades, his careful warning about who needs to stay in charge […]
2022

A template for accessible data visualizations

medium.com

This is a brilliant reference project on the process and design behind creating accessible data visualizations.
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2022

Leaky Forms: A Study of Email and Password Exfiltration Before Form Submission

homes.esat.kuleuven.be

This is another one of those papers that make your blood boil: through an experimental setup, the researchers found an astonishing amount of websites leaking email addresses entered by users to third party trackers …often even in cases where the user decides to not submit the form after all.
2022

Don’t Alienate Your User: A Primer for Internationalisation & Localisation

prototypr.io

This article by Sophie Clifton-Tucker presents a whole range of considerations how to better consider varying cultural norms in design. It illustrates the difference between internationalization (i18n) as a "pre-launch" design phase task, and the "post-launch" localization (l10n), but most importantly provides an even broader perspective in calling for culturally aware design.
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2022

Blind Accessible Comics

spinweaveandcut.com

My interest in the accessibility of information visualisations occasionally leads me into the rather niche topic of accessible comics. **Comics and graphic novels share a lot of the accessibility challenges information visualisations have** (content that is by definition first and foremost visual), hence the approaches to solving the challenge could cross-pollinate.
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2022

Frugal computing

wimvanderbauwhede.github.io

Highlighting how even radical reductions in **emissions in other fields will be nullified if the emissions from computing keep rising at the current pace**, Wim Vanderbauwhede makes the case for "frugal computing".
2022