User Experience

by Sara Stein

Sufficient color contrast is a prerequisite for readable text and accessible websites, and visual contrast has a significant role in the updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 3.0). Unfortunately, contrast is often given secondary importance by designers in lieu of other design elements. This article discusses color contrast for text readability and user interface design, the criteria for minimum color contrast of varying sizes of text, and methods to verify and improve your color contrast ratio, including interactive tools. [阅读详情]

by Brendon Smith

(English) A UX graduate entering an unexpected field yields career lessons gleaned from experiences in healthcare and Alzheimer’s research. [阅读详情]

by Sarah Pagliaccio

(English) Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States and across the globe result in inclusive and accessible design principles that can be implemented in everyday practice. [阅读详情]

by Lija Hogan

(English) Inclusive Design for a Digital World includes practical advice and strategies for designing inclusive and accessible products that take into consideration best practices used around the world. These strategies also ensure that people who have auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, visual disabilities, or situational challenges with access are fully able to use products we design. [阅读详情]

by Bill Schmidt

(English) Corporations desire to hear their customer complaints…or do they? We take a close look at ways companies use technology to raise the drawbridge on customers. Technology barriers exist for many reasons; some are good and some are bad. Automated customer service systems can speed up the support process for customers while cutting costs for businesses. But when they are designed to slow customers down, they risk becoming a "technology moat": an intentional obstacle to make customers think twice before proceeding. In this article, you will learn the difference between technology moats and dark patterns and how to spot them. [阅读详情]

by Bekah Rice

Web accessibility has always been good practice but, starting this year, it is a legal requirement that user experience professionals can no longer ignore. [阅读详情]

by Jason Pamental

可变字体已经问世，它们将会改变您对排印工艺与用户体验之间的关系的看法。 [阅读详情]

by Ann Junker

将可达性融入某个项目的第一步是破除“具有可达性的网站外观丑陋、成本高昂、难以维护或过于陈旧”这一错误观念。 [阅读详情]

by Alik Brundrett

遵循一些可用性基本准则，可使您的动作设计更具包容性，并帮助您提高总体用户体验的灵活性和成熟度。 [阅读详情]

by Whitney Quesenbery

《Structured Negotiation》（结构化协商）（Lainey Feingold 著）书评。一种在协作（而非冲突）的基础上解决争议的方法。 [阅读详情]

by Jens Sandberg Madsen

面向因年老而大脑功能衰退者或几乎没有电脑操作经验的人设计网站时，需要严格定义网站功能、明确工作流程并最大限度减少页面干扰。 [阅读详情]

by Whitney Quesenbery

一系列指南和方法，介绍如何创建可供视障人士浏览的演示文稿，包括字体大小、制作替换文字、确保图表和表格可供视障人士浏览、排列幻灯片信息的顺序，以及其他提示。 [阅读详情]

by Christopher Wilkinson, Dhaval Gandhi

基于当前研究的分析来建立了一个框架，在设计辅助技术过程中考虑老年人需求时用作基准或评审工具。 [阅读详情]

by Dean Karavite

专用于残障人士的设计，可能会使得个人电子健康档案不仅是可访问的，而且兼具创新性和实用性，对每个人都有益。 [阅读详情]

by Glenda Watson Hyatt

有语言障碍的患者的看诊过程往往缺乏尊严和保密性，因为专业健康保健人员大都不知道如何与他们交流。 [阅读详情]

by Sean Zdenek

字幕绝不仅仅是简单抄录，它对可达性和可用性都至关重要。 本文提出字幕文本具有天然的主观性和阐释作用。 [阅读详情]

by Chris Bailey, R. Ignacio Madrid

新一代自动柜员机和售票机可达且可用，使用了两种人性化交互方式来克服许多人（包括残障人士）所面临的障碍。 [阅读详情]

by Rituparna Bhattacharya

近场通信 (NFC) 技术有可能为视力受损人士营造绝佳体验。 本文探讨了使用 NFC 作为可达性手段的一些早期尝试。 [阅读详情]

by Alice Preston

《全民网络》(A Web for Everyone) 的书评，该书的作者是 Sarah Horton 和 Whitney Quesenbery。 本书设想了未来所有人都能上网的美好图景。 [阅读详情]

by Sarah J. Swierenga, Graham L. Pierce

在哪类情况下进行用户体验评估是违背道德的呢？ [阅读详情]

by Léonie Watson

可及性经常会被误解、中伤或曲解。如果“可及性”这个词曾让你感到有点晕、让你咬牙切齿，或是让你感觉有些困惑，这不只是你一个人的感受。但要打造非凡的数字体验，可及性就必须与可用性、创造性和技术一同考虑。 [阅读详情]

by Jennifer Sutton

在没有帮助的情况下，盲人如何辨别美元纸币？大多数人从来没有考虑过这个问题。盲人可以通过声音和触感来识别硬币，但辨别美元纸币是一件完全不同的事情。 [阅读详情]

by Jonathan Lazar, Brian Wentz

尽管可以 将网站设计成既可供残障人士也可供非残障人士使用的版本，但网站通常声明，如果您是残障用户，应使用另一个版本 [阅读详情]

by Rina Doherty

(English) Research on the effects of children’s long-term computer use is extremely limited; there remain key research questions that need to be answered. [阅读详情]

by Lorna McKnight

(English) Expert designers sensitive to established usability guidelines should be capable of designing software that is suitable for both ADHD and non-ADHD children. [阅读详情]

by Brad Fain

将可用性和可访问性专业人员划分为两个阵营的做法让这两种职业都深受其害，而且完全没有必要。 可用性专业人员在解决可用性问题时常会忽略一般人群之外的用户类别。 [阅读详情]

by Clayton Lewis

(English) Usability professionals should make a point of recruiting people with disabilities, including cognitive disabilities, for focus groups and for user test panels. [阅读详情]

by Caroline Jarrett, Janice (Ginny) Redish, Kathryn Summers, Kath Straub

(English) This article explores the possibility that similar guidelines for designing and writing clearly and simply can make reading easier for many groups and many situations. [阅读详情]

by Shaneé Dawkins, Juan Gilbert

(English) The Prime III Voting System is pursuing the ultimate goal of electronic voting systems; a single design that allows everyone to vote privately and independently. [阅读详情]

by Mary Hunter Utt

(English) Guerrilla usability testing software assists testing with people with disabilities leading to more usable and accessible software for all users—disabled, non-disabled, and seniors. [阅读详情]

by Kel Smith

(English) It’s necessary to consider the benefit that barrier-free virtual environments provide for people with disabilities in terms of pain management, distraction, and socialization. [阅读详情]

by Shawn Lawton Henry

(English) WAI provides an international forum for collaboration among industry, disability organizations, accessibility researchers, government, and individuals interested in web accessibility. [阅读详情]

by Kate Walser

(English) Focusing on accessibility objectives can help surface UX issues go beyond “accidental benefits” and improve a product or site’s overall usability through accessibility insights. [阅读详情]

by Karen Mardahl

(English) The Conference Accessibility Guide of the Society for Technical Communication is a source of information for conference attendees with accessibility issues. [阅读详情]

by Axel Leblois

(English) Usability professionals should lead the implementation of the dispositions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities relative to accessibility and universal design. [阅读详情]

by Aaron Marcus

(English) This compendium provides intellectual tools for those active in changing the world by making products and services more available to all who could benefit from them. [阅读详情]

by Whitney Quesenbery

对不起，此内容只适用于美式英文。 [阅读详情]

by Tema Frank

(English) Blio, designed to make e-books accessible to the visually impaired, allows users to read, or have read to them, e-books on regular computers or handheld devices. [阅读详情]

by Lisa Pappas, Linda Roberts

对不起，此内容只适用于美式英文。 [阅读详情]

by Gregg Vanderheiden

(English) Raising the Floor is creating an open source set of tools to create free public access features built directly into information infrastructure, facilitating affordable assistive technologies. [阅读详情]

by Ray Killam

(English) To create really good electronic forms, as with paper forms, you need to consult with all parties to assess fully their needs. [阅读详情]

by Aaron Marcus

(English) This book’s focus on accessibility during the entire user-centered design process integrates accessibility throughout product development and provides readers with a readable introduction to incorporating these concerns into daily professional practice. [阅读详情]

by Susan Fowler

(English) This book contains a matter-of-fact approach to dealing with the problems and strengths of autistic people by providing a different way of seeing the world. [阅读详情]

by Dimitris Grammenos

(English) People with physical disabilities want, demand, and deserve to play games. Let’s make games more accessible, for them and for our future selves. [阅读详情]