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How to Move Beyond WCAG and Towards Authentic Digital Inclusion

By Andrew Mallis, November 17, 2020
Headshots of Andrew Mallis, Crispin Bailey and William Reuschel ahead of their talk at BADCamp

Do you feel distracted by a suite of automated tools, pages of report data, and feedback on work that was designed and developed weeks and weeks ago? If your antidote achieves #WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, you may be leaving more people behind than you think.

Accessibility and digital inclusion can be easier.

Authentic digital inclusion means ensuring that every end-user can actually use a digital asset as designed and intended. Let’s start there. 

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Topics: Accessibility Community Nonprofits User Experience

Accessibility Challenges in an Emergency (Web Design for Disaster Part 3)

By Mike McCaffrey, August 31, 2020
A mobile phone displays a help button while smoke rises from a dark city in the background.
During a natural disaster or public emergency, your users may face a variety of new physical, mental, and environmental challenges, while access to your platform may become more important than ever. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Mobile Strategy User Experience

Emergency Landing Page Best Practices (Web Design for Disaster, Part 2)

By Mike McCaffrey, May 29, 2020
alert banners
An emergency landing page may be the best way to ensure that your visitors can find the information they need in a crisis, while minimizing any unwanted distractions. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Guidance Information Architecture Strategy User Experience

3 Simple Tips on UX Button Design 

By Graciela Alaniz, May 28, 2020
Hands on a variety of digital interface tools and buttons

Buttons have come a long way since the early days of the world wide web. We’ve gone from buttons mimicking the Windows operating system circa 1999 to large flat buttons with fully rounded corners we’ve seen increasingly over the past few years. In the example below, we can see how much button design has changed over the years. 

In this time, designers and developers have gained greater freedom in the presentation and behavior of buttons. But there are fundamentals to user-centered button design that are consistent despite the ebb and flow of trends. 

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Topics: Accessibility Responsive Design User Experience

Alert Banner Best Practices (Web Design for Disaster, Part 1)

By Mike McCaffrey, March 30, 2020
A stylized collage of alert banner designs.
A well-designed alert banner will quickly and reliably catch the attention of your visitors when an emergency is in progress and direct them to additional instructions, resources, and updates. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Articles Community Drupal Guidance Responsive Design User Experience

Accessibility the Awesome Way: Making Icons More Accessible to Screen Readers

By Candice Dexter, January 22, 2020
Code and icons from fontawesome

FontAwesome is awesome for everyone, right? Well, not so much if you are a screen reader user… We took on a mission to make FontAwesome even more awesome for a client. 

As a mission-focused organization, we want to make browsing the internet an experience that is available to everyone regardless of ability. So when our friends at Pantheon referred Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to us to help resolve issues their internal accessibility audit had flagged, we were more than happy to take on the project. 

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Topics: Accessibility Responsive Design User Experience

Donation Page Best Practices

By Thiago de Mello Bueno, November 25, 2019
A detail of a donation form.

We’ve recently had the opportunity to streamline the donation page and form UX for a client. There’s a good amount of information out there on how to do it well, but a lot of it is scattered, and one often has to sleuth up chains of citations to get to the source material. As is to be expected, applying general UX best practices and basic heuristics to any user flow gets us a good part of the way there, but the donation process—an important conversion for any organization looking to receive funds online— has some unique particulars, some of which might even be counter-intuitive. 

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Topics: Articles Discovery Guidance Nonprofits Strategy User Experience

Sessions From the Great Wide Drupal North

By The Kalamuna Team, August 6, 2019
Drupal North Logo

We were honored to have two members of our team present sessions at Drupal North this past June in the beautiful and vibrant city of Montreal, Canada.  Drupal North is an annual,  free, three-day conference focusing on Drupal-related topics and the community that drives the Drupal Project forward.

We were pleased to make new connections while also reconnecting with friends and peers. As always, it was also a privilege to be given the opportunity to share our expertise.

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Topics: Accessibility Analytics Community Conferences Discovery Drupal Guidance Information Architecture Nonprofits Responsive Design Strategy User Experience

How to Reduce Bias in Your UX Practice with Persona Scenarios

By Patricia Rodriguez, July 15, 2019
Screenshot of persona images from Google Image Search

Do a search for "personas" on the web and you’ll get a smorgasbord of smiling faces of all ages and from all backgrounds - and top results are all related to design, user experience, and agile. Demographic-based and often marketing-driven, personas are pretty mainstream and relatable - except when they’re not.

And like the web, personas are evolving.

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Topics: Discovery Guidance Strategy User Experience

Sharing is Caring on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

By Crispin Bailey, May 14, 2019
A wide red brick path winds through a garden with Springtime flowers

Last year around this time, to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which takes place every year on the 3rd Thursday of May, we shared our list of favorite resources and tools that help us test and address the web accessibility issues that invariably crop up when we’re auditing, designing, and developing websites. We’ve updated the list this year with a number of great new tools and resources that we’ve come across in the last year.

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Topics: Accessibility Guidance User Experience

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