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“[…] #accessibility is the best creative brief you'll ever get. […] Accessibility gives us […] a set of challenges that force us to push past lazy solutions and find ideas that are smarter, sharper, fully inclusive, and more expansive.” —@uxlondon.bsky.social
Piccia Neri is speaking at UX London 2026
A three-day celebration of user experience and digital design.
2026.uxlondon.com
Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now alistapart.com/article/good... ニールセンの10のヒューリスティクスの Recognition rather than Recall を、アクセシビリティを実装するプロセスに当てはめて考えてみる、という考えかた。アクセシビリティを「暗記」の問題ではなく「気づき」の問題として捉え直し、ペルソナを日常的な設計プロセスに組み込もう、という提案。
Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now
Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.
alistapart.com
Designers are good people. Some designs exclude people anyway. Alan Dalton offers a practical fix: accessibility personas that help you recognize problems while you're designing, not after. Homework included. alistapart.com/article/good...
Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now
Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.
alistapart.com
Thanks to @zeldman.bsky.social and @alistapart.com for publishing my “Good designers, bad websites: a proposal” article. I quoted Aral Balkan, Jakob Nielsen, Sarah Horton, Whitney Quesenbery, @sloandr.bsky.social, @cennydd.com, @meyerweb.com and @saraannmarie.bsky.social to make myself sound smart!
Enhancing Web Design: Recognizing Accessibility Issues Now
Explore the importance of accessibility in design and discover how to create inclusive experiences that accommodate all users.
alistapart.com
Time for another #DigitalDeclutter, as Cal Newport outlined in #DigitalMinimalism. I’ll be off Bluesky — and other social media — until Easter.
Alan Dalton@alandalton.bsky.social · last yr.Time for a #DigitalDeclutter, as Cal Newport outlined in #DigitalMinimalism: 1. Put aside 30 days for forgoing optional technologies. 2. During this period, explore meaningful activities. 3. Resume using technologies in a way that maximises their value for you. I’ll be off Bluesky until Easter.
@benterrett.bsky.social You might like this column from Joel Snape, Ben: it chimes with your “Advice: Sit at the front” blog post from April 2007!
Just Start: Sit at the front
Last week, I did the biggest panel event I’ve ever been part of: a Guardian Live event where I talked with Annie Kelly, Mariella Frostrup and Devi Sridhar about how people can live healthier lives int...
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@emcguane.bsky.social Hi, Elizabeth. I’ve added a link on my “Authors Apart“ webpage to your “Design by Definition“ book, to help spread the word. alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apar...
Authors Apart
A Book Apart is now closed. I’m trying to track the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available.
alandalton.github.io
Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
There's a roundabout in Cork where even during the worst traffic, drivers unfailingly allow others to merge in a "zip" by local custom. Driving through it restores my faith in society, every time. I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.
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—That guy is a woman’s man. —Should we talk to him? —He’s no time for that. —His music’s loud. —Yes, and his women are warm. —Sounds like a good life! —No; he’s been kicked around since he was born. —How do you know all of this? —Well, I can tell by the way he uses his walk.
My basic point is that the current AI bubble is going to pop. So what should replace it? I make the case that smaller, more energy-efficient, and more ethically trained models should be used for "boring" tasks. Our job is to solve problems, not look cool.
Oh, it's September already. Time for the HTMHell Advent calendar Call for Papers! 🖤 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
HTMHell Advent Calendar
Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2025, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...
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“Audiobooks, screen readers, text-to-voice applications – anything can now be turned into robotic but perfectly intelligible audio within seconds. Admittedly, the experience of ‘reading’ in this way is different. […] But it’s still reading, of a kind.” —@hlinehan.bsky.social
Hugh Linehan@hlinehan.bsky.social · last yr.I’m not normally in the habit of writing personal pieces but this is about my experience of declining vision. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
“[@matuzo.at] has too much respect for your intelligence to waste time trying to convince you of something you already know. You already know that #WebAccessibility is important.” —@adactio.com
Foreword to Accessibility Cookbook by Manuel Matuzovic
The foreword to the O’Reilly book on creating inclusive experiences.
adactio.com
Time for a #DigitalDeclutter, as Cal Newport outlined in #DigitalMinimalism: 1. Put aside 30 days for forgoing optional technologies. 2. During this period, explore meaningful activities. 3. Resume using technologies in a way that maximises their value for you. I’ll be off Bluesky until Easter.
“We’ve moved from humans learning to speak computer to computers learning to understand humans and I, for one, don’t want to go backwards, […]. Let’s make the computers figure out what we want, not the other way around.” —Luke Wroblewski
LukeW | Chat Interfaces & Declaring Intent
There's lots of debate within UI design circles about the explosion of chat interfaces driven by large-scale AI models. While there's certainly pros and cons to...
lukew.com
🤔 Pretty much since the inception of Approachable Open Source, I’ve asked myself and others, “should the book itself be #opensource?” We’ll get to that below. But, let’s not bury the lede. 📗 Read the book at approachableopensource.com/read/ 📑 View the source github.com/approachable...
Approachable Open Source
A new book by Brian Muenzenmeyer, available paperback or digital
approachableopensource.com
“Given the boring magic of the original tap, it’s surprising that we frequently encounter taps today that are badly designed. Many of them are so unintuitive and complex it’s now common to see a set of A4 printed instructions next to a tap.” —@benterrett.bsky.social, @publicdigital.bsky.social
Public Digital@publicdigital.bsky.social · 2y ago🚰 Ever thought about the magic behind your everyday taps? This week in our blog, our CEO Ben Terrett explores the subtle, behind-the-scenes design elements that make digital experiences feel effortless. #UserExperience #DesignThinking #DigitalTransformation #ProductDesign #PublicDigital
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On day 29 @twogrey.bsky.social shows us what happens if you use `<datalist>` with `type="date"` and `type="color"`. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
datalists are more powerful than you think - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
On day 28 @schepp.dev introduces us to the Speculation Rules API. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
On day 27 @alexmuzenhardt.bsky.social writes about icon-only buttons and their impact on screen readers. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
On day 25 @alistairshepherd.uk teaches how to optimise font loading performance. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload” - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
On day 24 Steve Frenzel makes the case for the `<label>` element. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
The search input: They almost got it right - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
On day 22 Daniela Kubesch advises us to stop using the title attribute as a tooltip. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip! - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev