UX LiftAccessibility
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 - 20 February 2024
Understanding color accessibility is more than just ticking boxes. Even with good contrast, diverse color perception can make interfaces challenging …
Mobile Accessibility Barriers For Assistive Technology Users — 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 …
How to Design an Accessible Web Site for People with Color-Deficient Vision :: UXmatters
UX Matters - 19 February 2024
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
How Accessibility Standards Can Empower Better Chart Visual Design — 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 …
A Practical Guide To Designing For Children — 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.
A Guide To Designing For Older Adults — 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 …
Tackling the Social Costs of the Digital Divide :: UXmatters
UX Matters - 5 February 2024
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
12 Important User-Interface Design Guidelines
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, …
Designing Empathetic Healthcare User Interfaces - Enhancing Usability and Accessibility
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 …
Google rejected me because of this one simple thing
UX Planet - 1 December 2023
Unraveling the unexpected reason behind my Google interview fallout and a year-long wait to reapply.
Dark Mode UI Design Best Practices
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 …
Design Perfect Date Picker
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 …
Navigating the Intersection of Brand Strategy and User Experience
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 …
6 Types of Useful Smartwatch Interactions
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 …
Is the age of UX Design is over? And has the time for Content Design come?
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 …
Creating Accessible UI Animations — 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 …
Empathy in Action - User Research Strategies for Enhanced UX
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…
How AI can be an ally for content design
UX Planet - 8 November 2023
AI: A magical ally enhancing, not replacing, our creativity and empathy in content design.
Empowering Business Owners with Data
UX Planet - 31 October 2023
This case study is a short tale on how I designed a data analytics section at Dukaan.
Bridging the Data Gap for Business Owners
UX Planet - 31 October 2023
This case study is a short tale on how I designed a data analytics section at Dukaan.
Tools
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.
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.
Accessible color palette builder
This is a tool to help designers build color palettes with combinations that conform with accessibility standards.
Button contrast checker
Enter your domain and we test if your buttons have enough contrast and are compliant with WCAG 2.1.
Color Oracle
Design for the color impaired. A free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Color Safe
Empowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.
Color Tool
Create, share, and apply color palettes to your UI, as well as measure the accessibility level of any color combination.
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.
Colorblind Web Page Filter
Use the Colorblind Colorlab to select safe colors earlier in the design process.
Colorbox
Comprehensive colour palette generator, now sponsored by Lyft.
Contrast
A macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.
Leonardo
Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors.
Sim Daltonism
The color blindness simulator.