Best Practices for Conducting an Accessibility Review

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At the July 2017 joint meetup of the &UX Chicago and Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design groups, Joe Welinske, accessibility specialist at Blink UX, presented a case study of their accessibility review of the new VeriCite product.

Welinske explained their review method, issues encountered during the review, and how they conveyed the results to their client. Continue reading Best Practices for Conducting an Accessibility Review

5 Easy Ways to Keep Your Users in Mind

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When you work on the web and create products for users, you can get caught up with all the technology.

You want to work on the fastest machine, fanciest monitor, latest smartphone, and quickest connection for your work.

We often forget: that’s not what our users are using. Continue reading 5 Easy Ways to Keep Your Users in Mind

Three More Things You Can Do to Help a Designer/Developer Troubleshoot Web Issues

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When one of your website pages isn’t displaying or working the way you expect, it’s frustrating.

All kinds of questions come to your mind.

  1. What’s causing the issue?
  2. How long has your website been broken?
  3. And how many of your website visitors had the same problem? Continue reading Three More Things You Can Do to Help a Designer/Developer Troubleshoot Web Issues