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.
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.
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).
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.
Using surveillance-based services out of a (perceived or real) position of privilege contributes to normalizing systematic surveillance on a societal level.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
“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
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
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?
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
This podcast episode, hosted by Carol Hannud, is a a comprehensive and very personal intro into legal design, told by four pioneers of the discipline — through the lens of how they ended up working in this field and how they look at it: Colette R. Brunschwig from the University Zürich, who
I’m always happy to randomly stumble upon accessibility updates on websites — today I noticed that caniuse.com (the most comprehensive resource for web developers to assess feature availability in different browsers) updated their colored tables with new cell backgrounds:
As I am currently working on an inclusive project with a focus on reaching disadvantaged populations, last week’s Creative Mornings Berlin meetup featuring a talk by Lena Alfter on typography for dyslexic people could not have come at a better time. Lena Alfter, a young designer from Germany
