Web Design Archives - Hart of the Midlands

X-Ray! [A to Z a11y]

Mike — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:30:00 +0000

Colour Vision Deficiency affects over 8% of men and 0.5% of women. Colour filters (including one that looks like an X-Ray mode) help present colours in a way that assists people with CVD.

In this post I take a look at the colour modes, how they work, and what all this means for building solutions.

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WCAG [A to Z a11y]

Mike — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:25:00 +0000

One common acronym that has run throughout many of the blog posts here is WCAG. It stands for "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" and comes from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). It's a set of guidelines designed for websites and content, but has been adopted as the standard for digital accessibility.

In this post I'll be looking at what WCAG is and some of the ways it influences how we build.

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Menus [A to Z a11y]

Mike — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:04:00 +0000

Welcome, honoured guest, to the midway point in the A to Z Accessibility: Power Platform Edition. Today we are looking at Menus. I'm talking hamburgers, stacks, waffles, and more. Are you drooling like Homer Simpson yet?

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