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by joelanman 3y ago
Reminds me of my old GSmart Mini 2, fantastic little credit-card sized camera. No screen was part of the fun https://www.productindetail.com/pf/mustek-gsmart-mini-2
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Gov.uk Prototype Kit v13(twitter.com)
10 points by joelanman 4y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 4y ago
I think I just didn't realise how poor placeholders are in general at that point, compared to just having visible labels/examples. Placeholders disappear when you start typing and have poor contrast
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by joelanman 4y ago
author here, just to note our current design pattern for this is slightly updated: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/
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by joelanman 4y ago
we have a blog post on why: https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...
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by joelanman 4y ago
author here, for known dates like date of birth it's still easier and faster to just type it in. Also type=date has accessibility problems and the design varies a lot, so people might get a decent experience on one browser/OS and
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Gov.uk – Front end developer guidance(gov.uk)
2 points by joelanman 6y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 6y ago
We removed it from GOV.UK in 2016: https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/28/removing-the-exte...
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by joelanman 6y ago
I've tried a bunch and plantnet is the best so far
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Gov.uk Design System – Help users recover from validation errors(design-system.service.gov.uk)
2 points by joelanman 7y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 7y ago
We'll be publishing soon on the GOV.UK Design System, but in summary we can't make browser validation consistent with our Design System, or guarantee it's always accessible. In our research it's commonly most often helpf
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by joelanman 7y ago
Important to note that in the article we mention we only use pattern to trigger the right keyboard in old iOS. We actually turn off HTML validation in favour of doing server side validation, we'll soon be publishing guidance on that to
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by joelanman 7y ago
The article covers quite a few issues with type=number, including some pretty bad accessibility ones. On balance I think even if inputmode doesn't have 100% support, those users will simply get a normal keyboard, which isn't so ba
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Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers(technology.blog.gov.uk)
556 points by joelanman 7y ago|173 comments
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by joelanman 7y ago
update - here's the original calendar design challenge: http://www.elzr.com/blag/infodesign-challenge/
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by joelanman 7y ago
A few years back I took part in an online design challenge to make a pocket calendar - it was a lot of fun, my designs are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/albums/7215759450272... One of them is
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Welcome to the Updated UK Government Service Standard(gds.blog.gov.uk)
1 points by joelanman 7y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 7y ago
From the executive summary: Gutenberg has significant and pervasive accessibility problems, the likes of which amount to a step backwards for users with disabilities over the legacy editor. Our user-based testing – backed by data from our t
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Results of the WordPress Gutenberg Accessibility Audit(wpcampus.org)
2 points by joelanman 7y ago|1 comments
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by joelanman 8y ago
From a few days ago, this is also excellent for exploring colours with accessible contrast from each other: https://color.review/
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The benefits of migrating Gov.uk Pay’s codebase to the Gov.uk Design System(gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk)
86 points by joelanman 8y ago|10 comments
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by joelanman 8y ago
Disclosure - I work on the team. The GDS equivalent, GOV.UK Frontend, is part of the GOV.UK Design System: - https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ - https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
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by joelanman 8y ago
This looks cool - is there anything about accessibility testing - how well it works with screen readers for example? I couldn't see anything in the docs.
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From theory to practice: Government as a Platform 3 years and 200 services later(governmentasaplatform.blog.gov.uk)
1 points by joelanman 9y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 9y ago
Also UK Government Digital Service guidance on writing: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...
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by joelanman 9y ago
On behalf of everyone, thanks, always good to know :)
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by joelanman 9y ago
Can't think of where that particular finding is written up, but you can find a lot of our research and guidance on our blogs and site: https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/ https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/
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by joelanman 9y ago
At GOV.UK we do a lot of user research, and find bullet points to be very successful in drawing affection to and clearly conveying lists of things. For example requirements.
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by joelanman 9y ago
That's an elegant explanation
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by joelanman 9y ago
not sure whether this gives much advantage over just listing the results in order of travel time? It gives an indication of direction, but is that really useful?

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