Silvia Maggi Design - The Accessibility Choice – July 2025
The latest accessibility news and discoveries. A monthly update.| silviamaggidesign.com
The latest accessibility news and discoveries. A monthly update.| silviamaggidesign.com
The use of generated text might save time for who creates, but the results are lazy and unhelpful. Don’t be that person. Yesterday I received an email from a company’s career portal that asked whether I still wished to be considered for new vacancies. My email client, Thunderbird, blocks remote images, so I get to see the effort people put into providing alternative text. The descriptions are vague and pointlessThis company didn’t put any effort in at all, as they blatantly rely on auto...| Silvia Maggi Design
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
British Paralympian and orthopaedic surgeon John McFall has received approval to take part in a mission to the International Space Station.| silviamaggidesign.com
As a subscriber to my blog through RSS, I wanted to let you know about some changes. You are now reading my work blog, where I focus mainly on accessibility topics. The blog you used to follow has been moved to silviamaggi.co.uk, where I will continue writing about personal experiences, design, and other subjects. Thank you for your continued support! 🔗 Look for the RSS feed you’ve been following at silviamaggi.co.uk/feed.xml --- Reply via email| Silvia Maggi Design
A campaign seeks to better represent disabled individuals and change the way they are portrayed in pictures. The Business Disability Forum, the leading organisation in the UK focused on including people with disabilities in business, has developed “Changing the Image of Disability.” This resource offers guidance on how to select, commission, and use images of disabled individuals. 1 in 4 people in the UK has a disability and 1.3 billion people globally. Despite this, disabled people are o...| Silvia Maggi Design
An exciting new initiative to highlight and share the different stories of disabled people in Cambridgeshire. The Museum of Cambridge and Rowan Humberstone, a local arts centre and forest school supporting adults with learning disabilities, partnered to produce an exciting new initiative they hope it will inspire other institutions across the UK. They will highlight and share the different stories of disabled people in Cambridgeshire, addressing past issues and obstacles. Disabled stories are...| Silvia Maggi Design
Big and small improvements that make a difference in the daily lives of people with disabilities. Today: clothing. Primark is introducing a collection of 49 clothing items for both women and men, designed specifically for people with a range of disabilities. The affordable high street store has teamed up with Victoria Jenkins, a fashion designer with a disability and the founder of the brand Unhidden, to create this line. “This has taken years of campaigning,” Jenkins said. “I didn’t ...| Silvia Maggi Design
Challenging conventional perceptions of design, Dr. Moore emphasises that design should promote equity and dignity for everybody. Dr. Patricia Moore is a pioneer in the field of inclusive design. She says it’s time to move away from those terms, stating that “what we had before was elitist design, because it wasn’t for everybody”, and “I think we’re close to the point when we don’t have to say that anymore”. For one day a week from 1979 to 1982, she travelled around Canada and...| Silvia Maggi Design
I tell you about the period I couldn’t use my arm, and how I used technology to work. But seriously, I should have rested. On 24 November 2022, I came out an operating room and reported to my husband that the doctor said everything went fine. I only needed six weeks of complete rest. Non-negotiable. Just like John McClane1, we had plans, and initially thought the timing could have been overestimated. It wasn’t. The surgery I had a small, non-threatening mole on my left breast that was gro...| Silvia Maggi Design
Second post of a series where I explain the steps I’m taking to make my website accessible. In September last year, having closely studied the WCAG 2.1 success criteria, I decided to examine my own website before assessing the accessibility of other websites. I finally have had some time to continue the improvements after so many months. In the meantime, I went on with my studies, performed accessibility assessments for UniCredit and provided design guidance on how to comply with WCAG 2.1. ...| Silvia Maggi Design
To wrap up the third month working as accessibility consultant for Italy’s top bank, I’m sharing a few things I learned. This is the second instalment of a series, read about the second month. Background The Stanca Law or Disability Law (9 January 2004, n. 4) has been updated. It now applies to all public companies offering services through websites or mobile applications and have had an average turnover of 500 million euros in the past three years. The law, which scope was previously lim...| Silvia Maggi Design
To wrap up the second month working as accessibility consultant for Italy’s top bank, I’m sharing a few things I learned. This is the second instalment of a series, read about the first month. Background The Stanca Law or Disability Law (9 January 2004, n. 4) has been updated. It now applies to all public companies offering services through websites or mobile applications and have had an average turnover of 500 million euros in the past three years. The law, which scope was previously lim...| Silvia Maggi Design
To wrap up the first month working as accessibility consultant for Italy’s top bank, I’m sharing a few things I learned. Background The Stanca Law or Disability Law (9 January 2004, n. 4) has been updated. It now applies to all public companies offering services through websites or mobile applications and have had an average turnover of 500 million euros in the past three years. The law, which scope was previously limited to public administration websites only, makes it compulsory for com...| Silvia Maggi Design
As I took a closer look to the WCAG 2.1 success criteria, I decided to take a step-by-step approach to make my website entirely compliant. First of a series.| silviamaggidesign.com
