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Jakob Guddas reposted thisJakob Guddas reposted thisWe’re growing our disability inclusion team at the LEGO Group. Let’s grow together! Check out this posting in Billund, Denmark. I’m #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?
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Jakob Guddas reposted thisJakob Guddas reposted thisThe winner of the worst app for breaking when text size is increased, goes to London North Eastern Railway as submitted by Sophie Powell-Hall. According to Appt research, 1 in 4 phone users increase the default text size on their phones. This breaks many apps because they simply haven't been built in a way that allows text to scale well. Many apps simply don't allow the text to scale at all. I'm looking at you ScotRail Do you have any better examples than this?
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Jakob Guddas reposted thisJakob Guddas reposted this"Users spend most of their time on other sites." -Jakob's Law of the Web UX This quote by Jakob Nielsen from Nielsen Norman Group is 25 years old today. I hope it still reminds us every day to stick to conventions. #accessibility #ux #userExperience
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Jakob Guddas reposted thisJakob Guddas reposted thisIt’s #WorldBlindAwarenessMonth and we couldn’t be more excited and humbled by ‘LEGO® Braille Bricks – Play with Braille’ being selected as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 in the Accessibility category! Congratulations to all our colleagues and partners who worked on this incredible project that makes learning braille more fun and accessible to everyone. ❤️ Explore more here → https://lnkd.in/e9tF4_7s #LEGOBrailleBricks #Braille #LearningThroughPlay *Image descriptions* 1) Young girl with vision impairment and her brother stacking LEGO Braille Bricks on top of each other, while mum sits between them and watches her two young children play at a table. 2) Young boy getting familiar with an element chart, which shows an overview of the different coloured LEGO Braille Bricks. 3) A young woman looks at a tablet screen displaying one of the LEGO Braille Bricks online PlayStarter activities. An open box of LEGO Braille Bricks is placed on a desk before her. 4) An open box of LEGO Braille Bricks. A hand holds up a blue LEGO Braille Brick. Another hand is poised to pick a LEGO Braille Brick from the box.
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisThis took a lot of tedious work but I’m now npm token free, weee! The 11ty ecosystem is now using Trusted Publishers (https://lnkd.in/gb3RB2tN) As a security precaution I had previously configured every single 11ty repository to have its own single-package-scoped npm token (there were probably ~30 or so), so this is a lovely improvement 😅
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisBREAKING: Executive Order 404 just dropped! "From now on, UX is UI. Period. No more of this 'user journey' nonsense. If it looks good, it works good. All this 'research' stuff is slowing us down." - Executive Order 404, signed April 1st, 2025 📜 Key changes include: - All wireframes must use Comic Sans - Every button must be labeled Click Here - User flows will be replaced by single-screen funnels "for efficiency" - Accessibility now means "bold text and nothing more" Make User Interfaces Great Again! #UX #DesignSystems #AprilFools #UXIsNotUI #MUIGA Image description: Trump holding an executive order that reads "UX = UI" and mandates Comic Sans and generic buttons. Signed April 1st, 2025.
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisAutomatically detectable WCAG errors in the WebAIM million: 2019: 97.8% of websites 2024: 95.9% of websites A reduction of 1.9 percentage points in 5 years. 2025: 94.8% of websites. A reduction of 1.1 percentage points in 1 year. And still the report calls it a “slight” improvement. This is massive. This can be the start of exponential improvements. From an average of .38 percentage points per year to 1.1 percentage points is almost triple the progress. This is good news. Be encouraged! Ooops, I forgot the link: https://lnkd.in/efKMipMu
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisYour semi-regular reminder: The ARIA Authoring Practies Guide (APG) contains examples of patterns following specifications. They are not tried and tested, and should not be copied as if they were. Support is not guaranteed. #accessibility #wcag
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisStop using placeholders in text inputs - it's not accessible! Placeholders have serious usability issues. They are often used as labels and communicate important information about the user's expected data input. ⚠️ Placeholders disappear upon input ⚠️ Placeholders can appear as pre-populated data ⚠️ Placeholders are not universally adopted by Assistive Technology (AT) ⚠️ Placeholders have poor color contrast To understand the placeholder usability concern better, here are some useful articles to dig deeper into the topic: https://lnkd.in/gVaz7TWW https://lnkd.in/gCYS23mk #Accesibility #Inclusivedesign #UX
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Jakob Guddas liked thisJakob Guddas liked thisReminding you all that aria-label overwrites. <span aria-label="Price">€30</span> This changes the accessible name to "Price". It does not concatenate.
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J. B. Rainsberger
I hope that this encourages organizations to explore inviting programmers into a more participatory role in developing the entire product. I worry that less-experienced programmers will become stuck in these "paid to write good-enough code" jobs and never develop the skill and interest in taking a greater role in product development. Meantime, the programmers who can do this well will all die or, like Justin here, grow tired of the industry, then quit. Not everyone who writes software wants to become a product-oriented entrepreneur. For example: I don't.
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Goodluck Lingson Wile
Most developers spend their time optimizing code, but the real issue often lies elsewhere. The biggest bottleneck in software development is unclear requirements not bad code. Before you start writing, make sure you can explain the problem clearly. If you can’t, don’t code it yet. A few minutes spent clarifying can save days of debugging.
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koome kelvin
Functional JavaScript handles pressure. Yesterday at Functional Programming Sweden , I showed how Functional JS handles data shape, change, and flow to build predictable, scalable architectures — live. https://lnkd.in/dMMapGvS The real enemy in JS isn’t performance — it’s uncontrolled change
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