Starting with an analogy to tech in orienteering sports, Lawrie Phipps looks at the excluding factor of the growing reliance of a certain stack of technology: […] practices in education have shifted, and we now have more technology as a default. That technology will have a minimum entry
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She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. “What are you talking about?” multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they
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Maggie Appleton has a “Patterns” section in her digital garden that I very much enjoyed strolling through as we’re obviously thinking along the same lines. The statement on algorithmic transparency cannot be overstated in today’s omni-automated world: When an automated
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Hands-down the most comprehensive treatment of semantic HTML heading structures, with special focus on accessibility, this How-to by Rian Rietveld answers close to any questions both beginners and advanced users may have. Side note, as it’s closely related: a very specific use case – the
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“This is WCAG” is a community-driven effort (GitHub repo) to translate the WCAG criteria for accessible websites into plain english, actionable test statements: It’s not a catch-all list for things which you feel should be accessibility failures but aren’t. This is a list
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#a11y friends: pattern or anti-pattern?
<p id="k">Kicker</p>
<!-- some other cruft, e.g. img -->
<h2 id="h" aria-labelledby="k h">Heading</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum …</p>
instead of:
<h2>Kicker</h2>
<!-- ... -->
<h3>Heading</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum …</p>
Any major cons? Thanks!—Joschi Kuphal Joschi Kuphal and some of his contacts discuss the optimal HTML semantics for a “kicker” (the little pre-heading on top of a headline, sometimes also called “eyebrow”; “Dachzeile” in German) from an accessibility perspective. Some very interesting nuggets and perspectives…
I have included the “kicker” in simple
<span>tags as part of the headline before, but of the solutions discussed in the thread, I almost prefer the idea that the “kicker” (cf. MerriamWebster) is actually something that semantically belongs below the headline and could the be lifted only visually. -
No matter how thoroughly a website is checked for accessibility by its creators, content editors play an important role in keeping it that way. Two little tools assist editors in their work, alerting them if content added through the CMS breaks certain accessibility principles. As a key building block in an inclusive publishing strategy, I look at the options and provide a turnkey solution for Kirby.
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Available on the Internet Archive, this somewhat trippy, and for sure visionary documentary on hypertext from thirty years ago still keeps to inspire; what with Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson and all those other pioneers in it.
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This piece is actually relevant in so many ways; not only does it reverse the logic all of today’s media appears to be built upon, but it generally provokes to reconsider the assumed infinity of resources in this world (here: attention of human beings).
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Every “sharing” interaction in a digital system has externalities – costs to somebody not involved in the transaction themselves: whenever an individual shares a resource or information about themselves, they are likely also sharing something that isn’t theirs.
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Using surveillance-based services out of a (perceived or real) position of privilege contributes to normalizing systematic surveillance on a societal level.
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In this final session of the “Conversations on Legal Design” seminar series, Dr. Zohar Efroni introduced the Weizenbaum Institute’s work on “privacy icons” that aim to convey legal information related to internet users’ privacy rights; as a foundation for the
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In the report “Contract design for humans”, Rob Waller presents an interesting perspective on contract design that could easily be translated into other areas of legal design, or even to UX at large.
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This study, based on a survey of 406 individuals, shines light on the fact that end users very much notice when they are misled by deceptive design patterns, yet they still feel manipulated even after noticing that.
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In the “Conversations on Legal Design” series’ third session, Prof. Helena Haapio gave an introduction to her work on contract design and — among other things — promoted “proactive law” as an alternative way of looking at law and contracts
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In the second seminar of the “Conversations on Legal Design” series, Prof. Monica Palmirani introduced the concept of legal ontology — more specifically the requirement for legal design artefacts to maintain the detailed information of the legal context.
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This report not only summarizes and categorizes the harmful consequences of surveillance-based advertising (manipulation, discrimination, misinformation, underminding competition, security risks, and privacy violations) but presents surveillance free alternatives …along with a call to policymakers to ban surveillance advertising.
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In the first of four “Conversations on Legal Design” seminar sessions, Dr. Arianna Rossi challenged participants to consider legal design from different perspectives: legal design is not just a problem-solving methodology, but also a framework for empirical research in legal and design challenges alike. Yet, its true potential may actually lie in envisioning alternative futures at large.
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While high contrast is important for accessibility, this article is a good reminder why overdoing it is not a good idea: There is a myth about white text over black backgrounds being the best color contrast combination for accessibility, but in reality, white text on black backgrounds creates a
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“Is dark mode impacting your users”, Maygen Jacques asks in this article about some less-considered aspects of designing for “dark mode” — specifically the impact of fuzzy vision from white text on black background for users with astigmatism: Let’s assume 25% of
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In this Twitter thread, Frank Elavsky directs attention to a neglected aspect of common data viz accessibility discussions.
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If you’re working with privacy notices for the web, chances are that you have seen the privacy policy of juro.com, which rose to fame during the 2018 spring of GDPR panic as an example of legal design applied in a real-world project. Juro and Stefania Passera, the designer behind the project
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Such a refreshing take by Vasilis van Gemert: why do we make people “skip” over navigation links placed at the beginning of a page instead of putting them to the end and offer a “jump to navigation” skiplink?
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Terence Eden tells the story of a young woman who, forced by circumstances, has to use a public website using a tiny gaming device’s browser. And it works. Because designers did their job: The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and
