This week, Principal Consultant, John Goodall gave a presentation at the ‘UX Crunch at home’ event – a remotely delivered webinar bringing together an audience of Junior UX professionals, along with a great line-up of speakers to discuss the important topic of Accessibility. John, who runs Bunnyfoot’s popular ‘Practical Accessibility’ training course spoke about ‘HowRead more
Posts with the tag: Tag: Accessibility
‘Accessibility’ doesn’t sound very sexy. At best, it feels irrelevant to many and is seen more often as a box-ticking exercise or ‘nice to have’, rather than a necessity. But that viewpoint couldn’t be more wrong.Read more
It is important when choosing colours for a website to include UX Designers in the process. We are currently working with a client who recognised the need for our early input, including branding and visual style guides.Read more
When considering accessibility issues of a website, rarely have the problems with acrylic nails crossed our minds. Today we ran a lab test where a woman struggled to use her tablet due to her long nails (she uses a stylus at home). A stark reminder to anticipate ALL the potential environmental conditions of test participants.Read more
Ticketmaster has announced that they are to scrap the much loathed Captcha verification system which requires customers to decipher a jumble of hard-to-read letters in order to prove they are human. The system is designed to prevent bots from trawling for tickets but has become one of the biggest irritants for fans. As these robotsRead more
The UKUPA is the UK Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association. It brings together UK professionals from the design, technology and research communities who share a vision of creating compelling technology that meets users’ needs and abilities. Once a month they hold events and Bunnyfoot had the pleasure of sponsoring the July event on theRead more
I’ve been watching with interest as the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) era has helped to naturally help make the web more accessible. I have attempted here to strip back the WCAG guidelines and the technicalities of SEO and give you the basics of how to use both to make both the web more accessible andRead more
This is Part II of a two part blog on avatars. If you haven’t already you can read Part I below. So what’s the point? How can this technology be applied to provide us with something useful? For online businesses, developing a virtual sales agent that is capable of motivating the sites visitors into investigatingRead more
11th November 2010 saw World Usability Day being celebrated around the world. We took part by hosting a design competition on World Usability Day’s theme of “Communication”. We had an amazing morning with the kids from Royal Mile and Niddrie Mill primary schools. In the last month they have built their prototypes following user centredRead more
Content is a major way of communicating messages, but on the web we can be prone to believing that aesthetics sell and end up neglecting the written content. Good copywriting is about understanding how it makes the audience feel and persuading them using both language and imagery. Mark Vincent is one of our accessibility testers.Read more
