Case Study: Accessible Design
Marshall and Cat share how we worked to achieve a beautifully accessible design with Specific Clarity.
Written by Marshall Norman
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Progressive Enhancement Is A Team Sport
The Sparkbox team shares multiple perspectives on the importance of Progressive Enhancement for today’s web.
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Ethically Accessible
Marshall explores oversights that are easy for web developers to make when creating a web that’s accessible for everyone.
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Aria-Live for an Accessible Web
Not all content on your site is created equal. Marshall shares how aria-live can help you bubble up the right information for visually-impaired users and downplay the rest.
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Aria-Hidden for an Accessible Web
The next time you build that big, gnarly offscreen nav, think about how it works for users relying on screen readers and consider using area-hidden.
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Aria-Label for an Accessible Web
An estimated 285 million people around the world are visually impaired (World Health Organization). Marshall explores how you can use aria-label to make the web a better place for visually impaired users.
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Craft Your Creativity: A Coming of Age Story
The path of the young designer is destructive, fun, and unavoidable. Marshall shares lessons learned that have turned his raw passion into fruitful creativity.
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Chainsaws at the Dinner Table
One div. Two divs. Small site. Large site. Among the myriad types of web projects out there, it can be a challenge to find the right balance in coding. Marshall shares some lessons learned.
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Homepage Last
Everyone cares about the homepage, but the truth is that it can be a big time suck without a lot of benefit when you tackle it at the beginning of a project. Marshall encourages everyone to think about the rest of the site first and explains how much that helps developers.
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Sass Packing
Writing vanilla CSS can get messy quick. Writing scannable, modular, and maintainable Sass, the same way you’d pack for a hiking trip, can make things a lot simpler.
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