Accessibility in User Experience Design, with Kristin Everham (episode 12)

Kristin Everham, hand-lettering artist and card maker @hensonhandmade, is a programmer in her day job life. Today, Kristin shares some of the research holes she falls down at work. We talk about color wheels, the Element Inspector, and parts of websites you never think about that take programmers months to create.

SHOW NOTES:

Image from Foleon.com.

Here is an example of a color wheel with values. (I got this image from Pinterest so I cannot guarantee that it’s actually correct.) 

The twitter thread about color guidelines can be found here: https://twitter.com/DanHollick/status/1417895151003865090

Here is an example of my podcasting site with the element inspector illuminated! FEEL THE POWER

Here is one of Baymard’s articles about why Quick Shop (or “quick views” as they call it) generally showcase usability issues on a site rather than solve them.

Bigotry Encoded: Racial Bias in Technology explains the hand soap dispenser that Kristin mentions in the context of racial bias in tech overall. 

The piece that Leah shared about barber poles and bloodletting was on History.com, called “Why are barber poles red, white and blue?”