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#accessiBe Will Get You Sued | Adrian Roselli

I made some updates to my #accessiBe post (additions, no re-writes). The second: Even #accessiBe’s Latest Release is Inaccessible Look at that contrast! Look at those flags (you can only look as they have no alt attributes)! h/t @karlgroves

The Correspondent will stop publishing on 1 January 2021. We’d like to thank our members for their support - The Correspondent

Another great news publication shuts its doors. This cuts deep.

Miro | Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration

Some @MiroHQ activities I have been doing lately Link to board: I'll try to schedule another walkthrough if folks are interested.

Geri Reid - WCAG Accessibility Checklist

@feather I read through WCAG and wrote out design criteria in my own words so it made sense to me as a designer. Might be helpful to others!

CSS { In Real Life } | A Utility Class for Covering Elements

A Utility Class for Covering Elements, also with CSS Grid. By @MicheBarks.

‎Finding Our Way on Apple Podcasts

Human-centered UX practices don't do nearly enough to address trauma, power dynamics, and self-care. In the latest Finding Our Way, @jjg and I get schooled by @vcastillo630 on these subjects and much more. Apple: Website:

23–Make UX truly human-centered by addressing trauma, power, and other necessary and uncomfortable realities (ft. Vivianne Castillo) – Finding Our Way

HTML Design Principles

The HTML Design Principles “Priority of Constituencies” section states: “In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.” 8/20

alt attributes like paragraphs - daverupert.com

The Syllabus

Syllabus Archive

What is DesignOps and Does Your Startup Need It? | First Round Review

Nice article on DesignOps from @alisonrand

Bye Google reCAPTCHA | Recommended Captcha Services

switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software

Get your work recognized: write a brag document

i think "get your work recognized: write a brag document" is one of the most important blog posts I've written. Building a culture where people encourage each other to track & celebrate their accomplishments is really powerful.

Death to Bullshit | Brad Frost

@cydharrell @gregpak death to bullshit

TBM 50/53: The Curse of "Success" Metrics - The Beautiful Mess

WeCommerce Holdings Ltd. Announces Closing of Qualifying Transaction TSX Venture Exchange:BRAC-P

Excited to announce that WeCommerce will begin trading on the TSXV under the symbol WE on Monday at 9:30AM EST. 🚀🚀🚀

(404) https://t.co/MZsE2lPC3G%E2%80%99s

Wow. I’m going to do a little thread on the many levels of awful here. Alt: “get a coronavirus test” page using Google’s reCAPTCHA asking for the site visitor to identify “crosswalks“.

System 02 — The Backcountry Hut Company

spent the day daydreaming about building a tiny house by a lake and trying to come up with reasons why not to

New tribalism - Wikipedia

Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts

“Google Fonts resources will be redownloaded for every website, regardless it being cached on the CDN. Self-host your fonts for better performance. The old performance argument is not valid anymore.” 👍🏻 Learned this a long time ago from @zachleat ’s work

Untitled (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think)

This got buried earlier this year (story came out just as Covid was breaking in the West), but the invisible ways our digital behaviors contribute to climate change is one of the most important (and increasingly-relevant) issues of this decade - (1/2)

Synology Inc.

book notes | Derek Sivers

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want - by Nicholas Epley

Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website

This is unfortunate. I use the @goodreads API to publish my reading list on my personal website. I will likely abandon Goodreads over this, unfortunately.

The Backcountry Hut Company

Amplitude | Product Intelligence for Web and Mobile

Chrome is Bad

How to Meal Prep - Meal Prepping Tips, Recipes, and Ideas

10 of Our Best Tips for Meal Planning for One | Kitchn

Honest Security

xkcd: Dependency

It probably isn't the case, but I can't help but think of this XKCD at times like these.

Strategic Digital Gardening - Google Slides

Really enjoyed these slides on reframing digital marketing by @willak. H/t @tomcritchlow for the share:

Untitled (https://www.fourkitchens.com/blog/digital-strategy/drupal-can-be-user-friendly-for-nondevelopers/)

Great post by @nJim talking about the connection between the content models that drive a site, and the tailored editorial affordances that can make those models easier to manage!

Untitled (https://www.eypae.com/)

Years back, @webmeadow built this gloriously explainable CKEditor toolbar for one of our clients () — it let them build longform case studies w/embedded structured modules, with the same conventions they'd use to insert images or links.

Framing outcome-driven product bets

Ran this webinar last week and I thought it was decent ... more examples than usual. Available on demand. Framing outcome-driven product bets link:

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier — Austin Mann

iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier Each year I look forward to Austin Mann's iPhone camera review to see where he went (Glacier National Park, MT). This year is no exception.

Cover Your Tracks | Self-Defense

(500) https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/our-phones-are-complicit-in-the-e-waste-surge%3A-that-needs-to-change-and-fast-2020-12-14

The poor, where the e-waste is dumped, suffer unquantifiable and sometimes irreparable damage. Many materials used in mobile devices have carcinogenic properties when mishandled, and in some instances complications like mercury poisoning can arise.

The Pareto Principle and Your User Experience Work | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design

Stewards over gatekeepers: Three Principles for Partnerships — Boye & Company

Another_Lens

Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design

7 Ways to Analyze a Customer-Journey Map

5 Principles of Visual Design in UX

The Discovery Phase in UX Projects

Fraud Is Sapping Billions From Advertisers; There’s No Better Time To Fight It Than Now - CPO Magazine

* In 2023, the cost of ad fraud will balloon to $100 million per day. * About 18% of all ad impressions are never viewed by real people

[2012.03659] Non-portability of Algorithmic Fairness in India

Fairness research in ML remains largely rooted in Western concerns: the injustices, datasets, measurement scales, & legal tenets used. These infrastructures, values, & legal systems cannot be naively generalized to non-Western countries -- @autopoietic

Myth #23: Choices should always be limited to 7+/-2 - UX Myths

That whole 7 +/- 2 argument for navigation, items in a list, menus, etc., is bunk. Original research paper: Miller talks about abstract concepts (linguistics, chunking) not visible item counts. Anyway, debunking resources: 🔖

CiteSeerX — The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information

Are your Anchor Links Accessible? | Amber Wilson

Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGFCQAYYoE)

@blankenship @ChappellTracker Several years ago, I riffed a bit on a new app icon for them with @craigmod, and we were deeply passionate about making this magical Earth bambino the app icon. They didn’t agree, unfortunately.

Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down - The Pragmatic Engineer

Have you seen good examples on (native) mobile planning/spec docs? I'm putting together a template along the lines of ones I've used/seen used when doing RFCs (). If there are existing (public) examples, I'd love to point to them.

Untitled (https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546)

Make your content accesible by writing meaningful image descriptions, or alt text, with this great in-depth article from @access_guide_ 👉

The most difficult thing for a Design Executive to accept… | Peter Merholz

The most difficult thing for a design executive to accept... ...is that they must be an executive, a business leader, first, and a design leader second.

what_researchers_mean_by_2017.pdf

Five ways the ad industry can be a better place to work, according to its rising stars

How violence silently starts by rejecting other people’s identities - The Correspondent

Powerful feminist voices have been denying trans women’s experiences or painting them as menaces. But we should remember that violence against vulnerable people starts by labelling them as a threat.

(500) https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

More anti cookie banner momentum: Cookie banners are awful. Using inessential cookies is more awful. Cookie banners aren't even necessary or legally required (even in the EU, unless you're using creepy cookies and violating member state regulations).

Steve Jobs talks about managing people - YouTube

Surah Al-'Ankabut - 29:45 | Quran.com

According to the Quran, ritual prayer - salah - is supposed to "prevent immorality and wrongdoing" - إِن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر. But that's only if you're doing it right - most of us aren't, and are in denial that it's not working.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karen McGrane - Wikipedia

What’s neat is when your page is deleted from Wikipedia they talk about why you’re not worthy, I almost like this better

History of the Web – World Wide Web Foundation

On this day in 1990, the day the world's first website and server went live at @CERN.

DITA Official | Perfecting The Art Of Eyewear

Glasses. Needs more research.

Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Wikipedia

Single source of truth - Wikipedia

Service-oriented architecture - Wikipedia

Front Page - OASIS Open

Requirements Identification - Fit/Gap Analysis

Gap Analysis: Guide and Template

An uneven history of content strategy | by Rahel Anne Bailie | Medium

Homepage - Content Science Academy

Homepage - Content Science

Product - ContentWRX

Content Inventory and Analysis Made Easier | ContentWRX Audit

The Content Advantage (Clout 2.0): The Science of Succeeding at Digital Business through Effective Content, Second Edition

What is ‘ContentOps’ (Content Operations) and why should you invest in it?

Untitled (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/facebooks-laughable-campaign-against-apple-really-against-users-and-small)

On privacy: "When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it, just as we will come down hard on companies that do the wrong thing. Here, Apple is right and Facebook is wrong." (Yeah, but what about those small businesses?!)