What it’s really like to be openly disabled in an interview process: This Medium article is written by Mal: a “multi-disciplinary designer + artist, storyteller, neurodivergent (autist + adhd); she/they”. She shares three interview experiences, two positive and one negative. The first was for an interview last September, in which Mal received the interview questions… [Read More]

The Monarch could be the next big thing in Braille A collaboration project between HumanWare and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) has resulted in the Monarch: a “multipurpose” Braille device. Refreshable Braille displays have existed for years, but have been expensive, slow to refresh, and fragile. A new “braille pin mechanism” created… [Read More]

Flexbox and the Screen Reader Experience A Webaim article that reminds us that whilst CSS flexbox can be used to change the visual order of content, it often has no bearing on how the content is consumed by a screen reader. This can lead to major accessibility issues if the intended reading order differs from… [Read More]

Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space An interesting article by Adrian Roselli, sharing something I didn’t know: A native <button> fires on key down when that key is Enter. If you hold down the Enter key, it continues to fire for as long you hold Enter (or something crashes). A native <button> fires on… [Read More]

Accessible front-end components: claims vs reality Hidde de Vries shares his tips for finding accessible components, warning that many components that claim to be “accessible” actually aren’t. Hidde’s checklist:

Face-off: Should kit colours be catered to colour-blind fans? Anyone who’s ever played FIFA on a game console will at some point have ended up playing a game where both sides have really similar looking kits. It becomes difficult to know who you can pass to, and makes the game less enjoyable. This is an… [Read More]