Accessible way of notifying a screen reader about loading the dynamic Web page update (AJAX)
The rise in the use of AJAX to dynamically update the website instead of using standard hyperlinks and separate Web pages has resulted in accessibility problems for users of assistive technology (e.g. screen readers).
I am inquiring here …
Which animation or visual queue indicates that there’s more content below on mobile
designing a form on a mobile app. It’s not visible within a single screen, yet not long enough to be on a 2nd screen.
My question is, what kind of animation or visual queue can i use to create an affordance that there’s more content belo…
How do you convey that the minimum size of an input is X characters?
I have this Q&A site, where I want the title to be at least 20 characters and the body to be at least 200 characters.
What is the best approach to convey these to the user without having them to submit?
Any good examples, you came …
Making bottom navigation dynamic based on app features enabled?
Our mobile app is feature based, so a user may have 1-4 of the bottom navigation items enabled on their account. Is best practice to hide the menu options that are not enabled or to keep it static and show an empty state if they select one…
Link to Slack on site
I’m placing a link to a Slack channel on my site. Here are two options I’m struggling with
Link opens default web browser and the Slack channel appears, if the user has already logged into Slack in their default browser
Link opens defaul…
Force RTL interface orientation or let the user decide?
If you’ve set a language on your operating system that defaults to right-to-left interface orientation, is there any reason that you’d like to set it to left-to-right anyway? Because you might already be used to it that some applications d…
Is there any research about the information icon font?
There is a small debate in my project weather we should use the serif or the sans serif version of the font for the “i” on the icon and it is something we clearly can’t test.
I personally prefer the serif one but I don’t know if apart fro…
How do I convince my boss that too many link colors are bad for accessibility?
I work at a really small company making websites for a specific clientele, an older female audience.
My boss, also the lead Art Director, uses lots of different colors for links across an entire site. She’s convinced that it makes inform…
Remember dialog sizes or not?
A lot of program dialogs can be resized. Some programs remember the new size of the dialog after you’ve resized it. So next time you open the same dialog, the new size is being used.
Right now in the software I’m designing for this is not…
Is it OK to let the user use colored tags to associate data sets or keywords
I am debating with my boss regarding tags should be coloured or not. I feel that colouring tags will just work as fun for the user. A user won’t remember what colour he has assigned to a particular group of keywords. For instance, the user…