User Experience #UX - research, design, and testing for inclusive and engaging digital experiences. Rock climber
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Vernon Fowler retweeted
Are you a developer, designer, or content creator interested in making your work more accessible?
@Intopia's 2023 public training courses are a great start: adcet.edu.au/resource/11193/… #Disability #Accessibility
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Vernon Fowler retweeted
Wow, meet Design Principles (principles.design), an incredible collection with 195 design principles and methods, searchable and tagged, from hardware and infrastructure to language and organizations. By @benbrignell.
#designsystems #principles #design #ux
Vernon Fowler retweeted
That's a wrap on Day 1! Thanks so much to everyone you joined us. Today's presentations are now available on our YouTube channel. Registrations are still open if you'd like to join us for Day 2 next Thursday, 10 November. YouTube: youtube.com/c/@A11yBytes #a11y #A11yCamp
Vernon Fowler retweeted
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the book "Every Layout" by @hankchizljaw and @heydonworks dramatically simplified my mental model of CSS and taught me how to do far more with far less
it's all about layout primitives and embracing the cascade, it makes CSS actually pretty fun
every-layout.dev/
Vernon Fowler retweeted
We’ve been working on a couple of accessibility updates that we’re excited to share with you.
First up: prototype screen reader support is officially out of beta.
Check out our new playground file to get started: bit.ly/3DPtpqM
Vernon Fowler retweeted
When it comes to designing video editing software, there's a lot to consider. Find out how Jessica Faccin and her team at @canva made it simple 👌 Catch the full story on Outlier below.
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Vernon Fowler retweeted
Our next round of public training kicks off in a few weeks. Keen to learn more about how to test for accessibility? Our tester course takes you through techniques, plus we share how to test for the most common issues. Find out more: intopia.digital/services/acc… #a11y #accessibility
ALT Intopia. Testing web accessibility for teams. Who said accessibility testing is not a team sport? Learn some quick and easy tests that will uncover common accessibility issues we see in websites.
Vernon Fowler retweeted
It's webinar day! Join us from 12pm AEDT when our own @sarahtp and @amja take you through the current state of play with WCAG 2.2, and how you can start to prepare for the new guidelines. You don't need to register, and it's free to come along. intopia.digital/articles/int… #a11y #WCAG
ALT Intopia webinar. Preparing for WCAG. Presented by Sarah Pulis (Accessibility Services Director) and Andrew Arch (Principal Consultant). Tuesday 4th October, 12pm AEDT.
Vernon Fowler retweeted
Join us for our next webinar, Preparing for WCAG 2.2! @sarahtp and @amja will take you through the guidelines, and provide some tips for you to start thinking about the next version of WCAG. It's on 4 October at 12pm AEDT and is free. Details: intopia.digital/articles/int… #a11y #WCAG
ALT Intopia webinar. Preparing for WCAG 2.2. Thursday 4th October, 12pm AEDT. Presented by Sarah Pulis, Director of Accessibility Services, and Andrew Arch, Principal Consultant.
Vernon Fowler retweeted
Join the accessibility rebellion! We're hiring for a number of roles, including digital accessibility consultants, an inclusive user researcher, a project coordinator and customer engagement partner. Join the force, and find out more: intopia.digital/work-with-us… #a11y #jobs
ALT Join the accessibility (a11y) resistance. Intopia is hiring.
Vernon Fowler retweeted
Thanks for sharing our Not-Checklist! Our new resource is still in beta, so if you have any feedback on it, we’d love to hear from you #a11y
Are you new to #accessibility and want to make sure your website is WCAG compliant?
The @Intopia team have created this nifty website with some guidelines so you don't miss anything.
Check it out ➡️not-checklist.intopia.digita…
Vernon Fowler retweeted
Check out the new Product Insights Report from @airtable. Interesting that “managing product launches” was the most challenging process: 41% of product professionals said it was highly challenging. Learn more at bit.ly/3mmCVrN
#prodmgmt #productmanagment #airtablepartner
Vernon Fowler retweeted
I discuss this more in depth in the discussion area at the APCA repo:
github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA/…
Vernon Fowler retweeted
The first free web accessibility tool that can perform site-wide scans with recommendations like missing alt tags, contrast, and etc! Use the action in your pipeline today. github.com/A11yWatch/github-…
Vernon Fowler retweeted
We've got a brand new Resources section to our website! In it you'll find our much loved WCAG 2.1 map, recordings of our webinars, our Figma Community & Slideshare pages, & much more (including some releases coming later today). Check it out: intopia.digital/resources/ #GAAD #a11y
Vernon Fowler retweeted
Ever looked at something on your phone while you're out and about and find it difficult to see? @vfowler takes us through how to tweak component colours so they can be distinguishable in direct sunlight youtu.be/GqJrRwnIWOU #A11yBytes #a11y #accessibility
