Accessibility

Focused on removing barriers, accessibility ensures that websites and products are usable by people with a wide range of abilities.


Articles

A Practical Guide To Designing For Colorblind People — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 20 February 2024

Understanding color accessibility is more than just ticking boxes. Even with good contrast, diverse color perception can make interfaces challenging …

Accessibility

Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 19 February 2024

Accessibility goes beyond making products user-friendly. It can significantly impact the quality of life for people with disabilities. Kate Kalcevich …

Accessibility

How to Design an Accessible Web Site for People with Color-Deficient Vision :: UXmatters

UX Matters

UX Matters - 19 February 2024

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

Accessibility

How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 14 February 2024

Accessibility for data visualization extends well beyond web standards, at least if you’re trying to create an experience that’s actually …

Accessibility

A Practical Guide To Designing For Children — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 13 February 2024

How to design for children aged 3–12, with insights into user behavior, considerations for parents, and practical UX guidelines.

Accessibility Design patterns

A Guide To Designing For Older Adults — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 6 February 2024

With one billion people aged 60 or older worldwide, inclusivity is more important than ever. Learn how to create digital …

Accessibility

Tackling the Social Costs of the Digital Divide :: UXmatters

UX Matters

UX Matters - 5 February 2024

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

Accessibility

12 Important User-Interface Design Guidelines

UX Matters

UX Matters - 5 December 2023

By Cynthia Wallance A product or service’s user interface (UI) is the doorway to the digital experience it offers. Therefore, …

Accessibility Usability Wireframing

Designing Empathetic Healthcare User Interfaces - Enhancing Usability and Accessibility

UX Matters

UX Matters - 5 December 2023

By Magnus Eriksen Today, patients can benefit massively from digital tools, which can influence their interactions with their caregivers and …

Accessibility Communication Usability

Google rejected me because of this one simple thing

UX Planet

UX Planet - 1 December 2023

Unraveling the unexpected reason behind my Google interview fallout and a year-long wait to reapply.

Accessibility Communication Prototyping

Dark Mode UI Design Best Practices

UX Planet

UX Planet - 1 December 2023

The dark mode is a night-friendly UI design style that predominantly features dimmed, dark, and grey color themes for all …

Accessibility

Design Perfect Date Picker

UX Planet

UX Planet - 22 November 2023

Date picker should allow users to select a date quickly and intuitively. This component consists of an input field and …

Accessibility

Navigating the Intersection of Brand Strategy and User Experience

UX Matters

UX Matters - 21 November 2023

By Vivek Sharma Ensuring the compatibility of your user experience and your brand’s potential users is the key to accessing …

Accessibility Communication Prototyping

6 Types of Useful Smartwatch Interactions

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 17 November 2023

Smartwatches are for more than just receiving notifications and tracking steps. They afford at least 6 different types of interactions …

Accessibility Communication Psychology

Is the age of UX Design is over? And has the time for Content Design come?

UX Planet

UX Planet - 13 November 2023

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in …

Accessibility

Creating Accessible UI Animations — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 10 November 2023

Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to …

Accessibility Web development

Empathy in Action - User Research Strategies for Enhanced UX

UX Planet

UX Planet - 9 November 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of User Experience (UX) design, creating exceptional products and services has become more critical than…

Accessibility Communication Usability

How AI can be an ally for content design

UX Planet

UX Planet - 8 November 2023

AI: A magical ally enhancing, not replacing, our creativity and empathy in content design.

Accessibility

Empowering Business Owners with Data

UX Planet

UX Planet - 31 October 2023

This case study is a short tale on how I designed a data analytics section at Dukaan.

Accessibility Analytics Collaboration

Bridging the Data Gap for Business Owners

UX Planet

UX Planet - 31 October 2023

This case study is a short tale on how I designed a data analytics section at Dukaan.

Accessibility Analytics Collaboration

Tools

Accessible Colours

Accessible Colours

We evaluate your color combination using the WCAG 2.0 guidelines for contrast accessibility. If your combination does not meet the guidelines, we find the closest accessible combination by modifying the color lightness.

Accessibility Visual design
Accessible brand colors

Accessible brand colors

This tool shows you how ADA compliant your colors are in relation to each other. By adding your brand’s colors on the right, you can generate a chart to see how they can be used together for accessibility, and find similar colors that work better.

Accessibility Visual design
Accessible color palette builder

Accessible color palette builder

This is a tool to help designers build color palettes with combinations that conform with accessibility standards.

Accessibility Visual design
Button contrast checker

Button contrast checker

Enter your domain and we test if your buttons have enough contrast and are compliant with WCAG 2.1.

Accessibility
Color Oracle

Color Oracle

Design for the color impaired. A free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Accessibility Visual design
Color Safe

Color Safe

Empowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.

Accessibility Visual design
Color Tool

Color Tool

Create, share, and apply color palettes to your UI, as well as measure the accessibility level of any color combination.

Accessibility Visual design
Colorable

Colorable

Take a set color palette and get contrast values for every possible combination – useful for finding safe color combinations with predefined colors and includes pass/fail scores for the WCAG accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility Visual design
Colorblind Web Page Filter

Colorblind Web Page Filter

Use the Colorblind Colorlab to select safe colors earlier in the design process.

Accessibility Visual design
Colorbox

Colorbox

Comprehensive colour palette generator, now sponsored by Lyft.

Accessibility Visual design
Contrast

Contrast

A macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.

Accessibility Visual design
Leonardo

Leonardo

Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors.

Accessibility Visual design
Sim Daltonism

Sim Daltonism

The color blindness simulator.

Accessibility Visual design