Inclusive Design Goes Beyond Your Design

A large meeting room with Derek Featherstone stands in front of room near whitescreen, as seated audience members listen to talk

At the Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design meetup, Derek Featherstone, founder of Simply Accessible spoke about inclusive design, what it means, and how to look beyond what we create.

Featherstone shared stories and tips for expanding our views of inclusive design to include our processes and tools. Continue reading Inclusive Design Goes Beyond Your Design

How to Return to the Top of a Web Page

child toy top on its side, sitting on top of wood table

While I was reading today’s Nielsen Norman Group’s article on back-to-top links design guidelines, it confirmed something I noticed when I recently conducted usability testing.

When usability testing participants were asked to return to the top of the page, the majority weren’t aware of the browser and operating system built-in options to get back to the top of the page. Continue reading How to Return to the Top of a Web Page

Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly

black butterfly with blue and yellow accents rests on a clump of fallen Phragmites stalks

After three hours of successful searching for migrating shorebirds along a marsh near Lake Erie, our group of birdwatchers slowly made their way back to our vehicles. Ahead of me, several people stopped to gaze toward the ground. They didn’t take out their binoculars, what could it be? I caught up to discover they had… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Black Swallowtail Butterfly