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Roger Attrill

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Digital accessibility — one person’s drive to evolve a culture.

I’m a UX designer and as part of my UX role I’ve also taken on the role of accessibility advocate. I’ve been increasingly concentrating on…

Oct 22

Using McKinsey’s Three Horizons Framework, a graph shows the increasing value of three horizons — short, medium and long term goals. Easy short term goals like making sure not to make the same mistakes again. Medium term goals like raising awareness and upskilling people about what real users need across the product team. And long term goals like making products accessible by default so that it’s impossible not to make accessible products.

Oct 22

How easy is it to make a checkbox inaccessible?

Pretty easy it turns out! This short article describes some ways that the simple checkbox might not be doing quite as well as you thought.

Jun 3

A swarm of checkboxes with wings are making themselves hard to catch. A young woman is trying to catch one checkbox using a butterfly net. The woman carrying the net is about to step off a cliff!

Jun 3

A11y you need to know about accessibility audits and VPATs

Empowering product teams to prepare, audit, analyze, report, and learn from product accessibility evaluations.

May 29

A mock pile of books titled “A11y you need to know about accessibility audits and VPATs”, with the tagline “ Empowering product teams to prepare, audit, analyze, report, and learn from product accessibility evaluations”. This article might feel like a book!

May 29

The ‘work around the work’ of testing the accessibility conformance of digital products

In anticipation of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on 16 May 2024 and my talk on accessibility auditing at UX Scotland later this…

May 14

A single-page view of the list of things to consider during an accessibility audit — grouped by things to do before, during, after, and beyond. The full list is in the main article text.

May 14

The multi-dimensional mystery of mastery

May 3

$A vision of the universe shows steps linking between galaxies, decorated with fractals and represent the transition from a novices single dimensional sequence of steps to a masters view of a multi-dimensional spacetime continuum$

May 3

Why Digital Accessibility Shouldn’t be a Thing

I get asked every now and then “Why are you so interested in digital accessibility?”.

Sep 6, 2023

Why Digital Accessibility Shouldn’t be a Thing

Sep 6, 2023

My journey from UX Scotland

Edinburgh 9 June 2023. It’s 16:59 and 46s and my train is pulling out of Waverley station 14 seconds ahead of schedule and I’m already sad…

Jun 9, 2023

Jun 9, 2023

Why color contrast is not as black and white as it seems

A look at one of the most fundamental tools in the designers toolbox — the color contrast checker — and why it might be problematic.

Dec 1, 2021

Why color contrast is not as black and white as it seems

Dec 1, 2021

Visualizing color contrast: a guide to using black and white text on colored backgrounds

I recently needed to find a foreground color that worked well with a variety of backgrounds. I needed colors but I also needed numbers…

Nov 21, 2021

A two dimensional chart showing how the contrast of black and white text changes with color hue and saturation

Nov 21, 2021

My head is spinning

Eighteen months ago I wrote my future-self some advice, got it out of my system, saved it to a file called ‘My head is spinning’, focused…

Oct 8, 2019