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Vernon Fowler

Inclusive Design: Accessible user experiences on the web « UX Australia 2010 - 0 views

  • Understanding how to incorporate accessible design practices within a project
  • Integrating accessible, inclusive design practices throughout traditional UX research and design practices
Vernon Fowler

Rosenfeld Media | Personas for Accessible UX - 0 views

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    "This page has a quick introduction to the personas we created for this book. The full version of the personas with more details about them and their stories will be posted over the next few weeks."
Vernon Fowler

6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt Dyslexic Users - UX Movement - 0 views

  • many dyslexic users are sensitive to the brightness the high contrast colors cause
  • use an off-white color for your background, like a light gray or tan. You can also use a dark gray for your text instead of pure black to cut the glare even more
  • dyslexic users need more breaks between ideas than non-dyslexic users
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  • Breaking up your text to one idea per paragraph makes reading a lot easier for both dyslexic and non-dyslexic users.
  • a sans-serif font would allow dyslexic users to see the shapes of letters clearer
  • you shouldn’t use italicized text because they make letters hard to read
  • avoid creating the river effect by using left aligned text, instead of justified text for your paragraphs
Vernon Fowler

5 Ways to Offer a Better UX for Disabled Users - 0 views

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    Empathy is unrivalled as a skill a user interface designer should have. Walking in somebody else's shoes (or seeing through their eyes may be a better metaphor), can be a temporary replacement for having a user/tester at hand. Let's take a look at some disabilities that we so often forget.
Vernon Fowler

WebAIM: Links and Hypertext - Link Text and Appearance - 0 views

  • links are more useful when they make sense out of context
  • In most cases, it is better to use human-readable text instead of the URL.
  • The alternative text should convey the content of the image and the function of the link. In most cases, the content of the image and function of the link are the same, so this text can be very succinct (e.g, alt="Products").
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  • When images are used as links, the alternative text performs the function of link text.
  • on both mouse hover and keyboard focus
  • they are also accustomed to seeing tabs and main navigational features (oftentimes created as graphics rather than text) without underlining. In these cases, the linked items should be designed so it is apparent that the user can click on them to perform an action.
  • Authors should avoid non-informative link phrases such as: click here here more read more link to [some link destination] info
  • adjacent links should have adequate whitespace (such as link CSS margins) between them to minimize users inadvertently clicking the wrong link
  • an alphabetical index may use each individual letter of the alphabet as a link
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