Knitting website Ravelry lost the trust of their community after their rebranding efforts caused several users adverse side effects from browsing the site.| silviamaggidesign.com
Animation and accessibility are often seen as two separate powers at odds with one another. How is it possible to strike a balance between elements that move and the possible negative effects they expose to users who are sensitive to motion? Oriana García explains how her team at Mercado Libre tackled the challenge by creating guiding principles for applying animation to user interfaces and incorporating them into the team’s design system.| Smashing Magazine
Thanks to the wide support of the prefers-reduced-motion-media feature, we now have more advanced ways to design motion that can be creative and innovative while also being safer for those with motion sensitivities.| Smashing Magazine
Why your coolest scrolly features can cause problems, and what to do about it| source.opennews.org
I spoke at the Fall 2021 Svelte Summit on Svelte Transitions and Accessibility. Svelte includes built-in animations that makes it easy to slide, scale, and fly elements in and out of the DOM. However, you need to be careful to not trigger motion sickness in your users. In my talk, I go over which Svelte transitions could cause accessibility issues and how to respect user motion preferences when using them.| Geoff Rich
I recently had the pleasure of attending Deque's axe-con digital accessibility conference. Over the course of two days, I attended multiple sessions about many different facets of accessibility. I mainly focused on the developer track at the conference, though I sampled a few talks from other tracks. Here are some of the highlights and what I took away from the sessions I attended.| Geoff Rich
Update 11/2021: this post was adapted into a lightning talk I recorded for the Fall 2021 Svelte Summit.| Geoff Rich