When Elle Waters kicked off the Accessibility Summit conference with her Accessibility for UX talk, she captured everyone’s attention with her stories of challenging user experiences, explanation of why UX professionals don’t include accessibility in their work, and her UX professional’s accessibility coloring book.
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Accessibility Summit 2014: Writing Great Alt Text
At the Accessibility Summit 2014 conference, user research expert Whitney Quesenbery discussed alt text, explained why we need it, and shared useful tips for creating better alt text.
Here are my notes, and some of the social media discussion, from her Writing Great Alt Text presentation:
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We’re promoting our responsive web designs, but forgetting something that dates back more than a decade before responsive design, says Adrian Roselli, author and vice president at Algonquin Studios.
We’ve created responsive websites, ensuring that the design works across multiple devices, resolutions and contexts, but forgotten to consider print style sheets in our workflow. Continue reading CSS Summit 2014: Making Your Site Printable