Shirt with magnetic buttons provides independence I came across the above post on LinkedIn about a year ago; a video of a man called Lincoln, who has cerebral palsy, putting on a shirt unaided. The shirt looks like a standard button shirt, but uses magnets for fastening. The typically viral LinkedIn post was lacking in… [Read More]

Building The Most Inaccessible Site Possible In this 35m video from Smashing Meets (December 2021), Manuel Matuzović starts off with a simple HTML site that is considered 100% accessible by Lighthouse. He then deliberately breaks its accessibility as much as possible, without Lighthouse noticing. He calls this process “Progressive Degradation”. He wraps all content in… [Read More]

Five 2022 accessibility trends A UX Collective article outlining predicted trends for 2022: The web will become more accessible – particularly the websites of larger companies. The SOAR report found that 62% of the Alexa 100 websites were accessible to screen readers, up from 40% in 2020. The WebAIM Million project found a very slight… [Read More]

https://buttonbuddy.dev/ A useful micro website by Stephanie Eckles. It explains the requirements for accessible contrast on buttons, and includes a generator for creating buttons of sufficient contrast. You have the option of using a colour picker, or switching to “Use text input” mode to put in the CSS hex codes that you intend to use…. [Read More]

Happy New Year! 🎉 It’s been three weeks since the last issue of week11y, after a much needed break. New year, new look: you may have noticed the format for this week’s issue is different. I’ve separated each article by heading, and done away with the bulletpoint list format. The old format never felt quite… [Read More]

Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website Smashing Magazine article by John C Barstow. I thought this was going to be one of those “choose a dyslexic-friendly font” type article, but it covers a lot more than that! According to John, “research shows that standard fonts like Helvetica and Times New Roman are just as… [Read More]

The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button Eric Bailey articulates all the reasons why you should stop using links and buttons with the text value “here” or “click here”. This is such a common mistake across the web and is a habit we need to break out of. Compare the following… [Read More]

At long last, we’ve hit the 100 issue milestone (or, if you count all the dai11y, week11y, fortnight11y and month11y newsletters together, over 600!). I’ve been publishing week11y newsletters for over two years now, with the first issue published in October 2019. I didn’t honestly know if I’d be able to keep it up, especially… [Read More]

Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They’ll Have to Do It Again This Wired article details how accessibility advocates in America regularly have to go to court in order to be granted an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act (DMCA). The exemptions, which last for three years at… [Read More]

Olay Designs An Easy-Open Lid—& Shares the Inclusive Design Olay, the beauty products manufacturer, have designed a new lid prototype for its creams, designed to be accessible. It has an “easy open winged cap”, “extra grip raised lid”, “high contrast product label”, and Braille text spelling out “face cream”. The lids are currently only available… [Read More]