Quick Tip: Use a limited number of typefaces, fonts, and font variations Each time a new typeface, font, or font variation is encountered, the reader’s mind must build a map or model of the characters and patterns to then more quickly parse words and process meaning. This requires cognitive effort… Continue Reading Accessibility Tip – June 2021
Quick Tip: Passive Voice Passive voice can be difficult to understand because it weakens the action of a sentence. An example of passive voice is: “The car was driven by Jim.” Active voice (e.g., “Jim drove the car”) is much clearer and will be easily understood by a broader audience.… Continue Reading Accessibility Tip – May 2021
In a recently published website, Accessibility professional Karl Groves has detailed a plethora of information about a controversial topic that has slowly grown in momentum. As described by Groves, “(Accessibility) Overlays are a broad term for technologies aimed at improving the accessibility of a website by applying third-party source code… Continue Reading Pressure mounts against the use of accessibility “overlays”