As a person with a disability, I appreciate the web and modern-day computing for their many affordances. The web is a great place to work and share and connect. You can make a living, build your dream, and speak your mind.It’s not easy, though. Beginners struggling with the box model often take to Google in search ...
I recently read this article by Keith Grant which introduced the newly arrived <dialog>. Excited by this new UI element, I immediately sat down to experiment with it to see how it can be used effectively as a modal — the most common use of it. While experimenting, I discovered a neat CSS trick on how to tr...
Shay Cojocaru contributed to this post. Have you ever lost your voice? How did you handle that? Perhaps you carried a notebook and pen to scribble notes. Or jotted quick texts on your phone. Have you ever traveled somewhere that you didn’t speak or understand the language everyone around you was speaking? How did...
A few years ago, I wrote about my experiences on developing a Bootstrap version 3 project to be fully accessible for people with disabilities. This focussed mostly on how accessible it is in terms of front-end design. (It didn’t cover accessibility in terms of screen readers, as that’s a whole other story.) While I...
As designers, we like to think we are solution-based. But whereas we wouldn’t hesitate to call out a museum made inaccessible by a lack of wheelchair ramps, many of us still remain somewhat oblivious to flaws in our user interf...
With the appearance of voice user interfaces, AI and chatbots, what is the future of graphical user interfaces (GUIs)? Don’t�...
Using voice commands has become pretty ubiquitous nowadays, as more mobile phone users use voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana, and as devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have been invading our living rooms.These ...
I last raised this question back in 2013 when Mozilla decided to remove the “disable JavaScript” setting from the options dialog in Firefox 23. The primary reasoning:Much of the modern web can break spectacularly without JavaScript. It saves users from themselves. Few people know what JavaScript is and e...
Voice-based interfaces are becoming commonplace. Voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana have been around for a few years, but this past holiday season, voice-driven devices from Amazon and Google made their way into millions o...
Smooth scrolling (the animated change of position within the viewport from the originating link to the destination anchor) can be a nice interaction detail added to a site, giving a polished feel to the experience. If you don’t believe me, look at how many people have responded to the Smooth Scrolling snippet her...
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