Category: web design
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Observations on Squarespace Accessibility
Summary: Squarespace, like other no-code content management systems (CMS), is a common choice for people who want to easily create a website. Choosing Squarespace comes with pros and cons when making a site accessible for people with disabilities. Table of Contents: Disclaimer In this post, I share observations about a Squarespace website’s output and its…
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Exploring the Underrated Output Element
HTML’s output element is pretty amazing. I mean, honestly, HTML is pretty amazing, right? Many elements can just DO things, plus express their own purpose. The output‘s abilities are no less astounding. Think about. You put in some value, and there they are on the screen. To me, it’s like magic. In this post, I…
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Webinar: How to Design Accessible Websites
On February 2, 2022 I gave an intro to accessibility talk for Buddy. It was fun having the chance to encourage more people to make their website accessible. Video runs 1 hour and 17 minutes. I’ve been assured professional captions and transcripts will be available soon. Slides PowerPoint slides (103 Kb) PDF slides (153 Kb)…
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7 Reasons Why Accessibility Overlays Aren’t a Magical Solution
Recently I had a conversation with an accessibility colleague at work about accessibility overlays for webpages. This conversation sprouted from a goal set a couple years ago that aimed to explore options and purchase a 3rd-party overlay for our sites as a solution to improve the accessibility of our web presence. Thankfully, time passed with…
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Synchronize Files in Dreamweaver
Is anyone out there still using Adobe Dreamweaver in 2018? I am. It’s my text editor of choice at work because 1) it was given to me to use, and 2) it seamlessly puts my files from my local environment to the production server. One of the features I’ve recently discovered, and love to use…
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Two New Shortcuts Added to My Web Design Toolbox
One perk about the web designer and developer life is that I’m always learning. Always. Today I learned how to… Quickly convert content to code Today I found myself pulling out the headphones, turning up the Moana soundtrack, and tediously beginning the manual process of copying content in between HTML tags. About a quarter of…
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A “Day” in the Life of This Web Designer
What I Do on the Daily According to the State of Alaska, I am classified as a Publications Specialist. To skip all boring narrative, I am a web and publications designer for the Alaska State Libraries, Archives, and Museums. To sum it up more, I design and maintain the webpages for my division. Additionally, I…
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From Float to Flexbox
It only took me until 2018 to finally apply flexbox to a project. Long after I’ve played with the new grid syntax, and continued to fall back on floats, I am finally coming around and learning flexbox. Each display value has its own strengths and quirks, but I’ll leave that for another blog post. Challenge…
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Presentation: Accessible & Inclusive Web Design
Today (March 4, 2018) I had the pleasure of spreading awareness of web accessibility to other moms who code via a Moms Can: Code talk. Here are the slides for my presentation: PowerPoint slide deck PDF slide deck Archived video can be watched with a Moms Can: Code membership.
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#ID24: 100 Days of A11y
What can you accomplish in 100 days? Come listen as Amy Carney shares her 100-day journey and what lessons she learned about web accessibility during that time. Learn what happens when just an hour a day for 100 days is dedicated to learning and advocating for accessibility. Today (November 16, 2017) I had the privilege…