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Plug-in

Blurred Vision simulation

Stark now offers a new feature in its plug-in for Sketch and Figma that stimulates blur vision - astigmatism, presbyopia, dry eye syndrome, cataracts, glaucoma and age-relation macular degeneration.

This option is available in the pro version of the plug-in for $60/yr.

December 3, 2020
How to design a color friendly UX
101 Toolbox UX Design

How to Design for Color Blindness

Five elements any designers should be focusing on for a color-friendly UX.

December 1, 2020
10 easy techniques to help others to understand accessibility
Articles

Helping others to understand accessibility

Accessibility can be challenging to explain. Here are ten easy methods to help demonstrate the barriers others face.

November 30, 2020
A person is using a screen magnifier software to assist her ordering a pizza online.
101 Toolbox Certificate

Introduction to Web Accessibility

This free course presented by the W3C will give you solid foundations in accessibility and help you provide a better experience for everyone. Note: if you want to earn the certificate, you'll need to switch to the verified course.

October 28, 2020
A seven-steps guide to start designing a more accessible web
101 Toolbox Articles

Designing for accessibility is not that hard

Pablo Stanley wrote and illustrated a 7-steps guide to start designing for a more accessible web. A must-read article 💜

September 16, 2020
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101 Toolbox Color contrast

Color Oracle

About 10% of the population - mostly males - has a form of colorblindness.
Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It shows in real time what people with common color vision impairments see.

September 16, 2020
A study shows that most web pages have failed most have failed with ADA and WCAGC 2.1 compliance!
Articles

Study: ADA and WCAGC 2.1 failures

AccessiBe has scanned and analyzed 10 million pages worldwide, and most have failed with ADA and WCAGC 2.1 compliance!

September 15, 2020
Learn how to design accessible forms
101 Toolbox UX Design

How to design an accessible form

The UX Designer, Núria Peña presents the best practices of how to make forms accessible for as many people as possible from a design perspective.

September 2, 2020
What is an accessible font?
Articles

What Makes a Typeface Accessible

Gareth Ford Williams - Head of UX Designer at the BBC - pulled together a resource about readability and accessible typefaces to help designers to make more informed design decisions.

August 29, 2020