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Jun 22, 2020

Twitter on the iPhone showing how it looks when you tap the button to record a tweet.

Shiny, new and inaccessible

A new feature from Twitter which excludes many, and causes barriers to…

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Jun 22, 2020

Designing through an Accessibility lens

What it means to come at design problems through a specific…

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Jun 22, 2020

Lady wearing ClearMask, a mask which allows Deaf people to see the persons mouth.

Accessibility as an afterthought

The issues with face masks and the barriers created for D/deaf…

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Jun 21, 2020

Inside the exhibition hall, two interpreters are stood with a deaf-blind man, I am stood holding an iPad with Proloquo4Text.

Looking back at CSUN 2017

A retrospective about 2017s CSUN Assistive Technology Conference.

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Jun 21, 2020

Presenting Proloquo4Text to Tim Cook from Apple.

Year end

A summary of my top three work-related moments of 2016.

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Jun 21, 2020

Image of The Night Watch, showing some issues with layout when the page is zoomed in to 150%

Accessibility in the GLAM sector

Exploring the accessibility of three websites in the galleries…

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Jun 21, 2020

The current and suggested subscription options, with the latter being more simplified, just showing yearly/monthly/weekly.

The problem with credits

Further exploration of the credit systems, and the risk of dark patterns.

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Jun 21, 2020

A highlighted screenshot from the website, showing an area to purchase credits.

Evaluating newspaper websites

In September 2013 I was given the interesting challenge of performing a heuristic review on six newspaper…

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Jan 27, 2016

A stock photograph of a UX design workshop in progress, a Time Timer is present, with sticky notes.

UX Fears from a former Webmaster

The title of UX could well go the same way as ‘Webmaster’, as…

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Jun 20, 2020

An old wheelchair in a disused, empty hospital.

The vulnerable are even more vulnerable now

How an inaccessible PDF can create barriers for an…