seanwilson

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   by seanwilson 10mo ago

   I miss the Freelancers thread as well. The kind of information you post when you're looking for a freelancer or open to freelance work is really different from typical posts for permanent positions. The freelance posts are going to get
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   by seanwilson 10mo ago

   > Jumping between the files? I mean having to jump between the HTML and multiple CSS files (which often you have to track down by using the browser inspector) to make edits to while styling things. When HTML and styling are tightly coupl
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   by seanwilson 10mo ago

   > CSS can be laser-like specific if you want it to. Want to only affect that thing? Use ids, inline styles or learn how to write proper selectors. You've still go all the normal CSS problems like having to debug complex selectors, j
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   by seanwilson 10mo ago

   > It's funny that it skips the entire cascading part of Cascading Style Sheets though. Are there major downsides besides that? I think cascading is a bad default. It's useful, but only sometimes, and often causes headaches lik
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   by seanwilson 11mo ago

   SEEKING WORK | UX/UI & web design Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/ Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m use
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   by seanwilson 11mo ago

   Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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   by seanwilson 11mo ago

   Once you run the JavaScript of the npm library you just installed, if it's Node, what's to stop it accessing environment variables and any file it wants, and sending data to any domain it wants?
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   by seanwilson 11mo ago

   For sourdough and breadmaking, I always find it funny how recipes and tips make out like yeast is almost delicate and hard to keep happy when we know yeast is super tough. It can survive drying, cold/freezing, high pressure, having no
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   by seanwilson 11mo ago

   That's awesome, thanks! I'd also keen to hear from people who are interested in accessibility but don't know much about it too. I've tried to explain the WCAG contrast rules in the simplest way I can (interactively, via
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    by seanwilson 11mo ago

    SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | UX/UI & web design Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/ Location: Edinburgh, UK and remot
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    by seanwilson 11mo ago

    A tool for creating custom Tailwind-style color palettes for web and UI design that pass WCAG contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ The interface is optimized to let you quickly explore and tweak multiple
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    by seanwilson 11mo ago

    > You write your logic in a common languages and then the UI is an external layer Isn't reimplementing all your UI widgets, views, layouts and interactions for multiple platforms still a ton of work though? I'm not meaning peop
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    by seanwilson 11mo ago

    > its nearly better to write your business UI 3 times one for each platform. Anyone have any experience of doing this for a complex and long-life app? Sounds like a nightmare that would increase friction and decrease development fun by
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    SEEKING WORK | UX/UI & web design Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/ Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m use
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    A tool for creating custom Tailwind-style palettes for web and UI design that have WCAG accessible contrast: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ It's more aimed at designers right now that have some familiarity with desig
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    This is cool! I was confused how to get going at first and didn't realise it was a step-by-step wizard I had to follow, plus I only watched the demo video briefly. I loaded the human then clicked around the main area and couldn't
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    > To make sure you got everything right, you can enable the new PDF/UA-1 export. PDF/UA is an international standard that helps to create universally accessible PDF files. When it is enabled, Typst will run additional checks ag
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    Reds people choose are usually between dark and light, which doesn't contrast particularly well on anything because for good contrast you need a dark color vs a light color. Green, yellow, red or whatever hue is fine, as long as it&#x2
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    Cool! Here's a quick link for now with those colors: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/?style_dictionary=eyJjb2xvci... I've sorted the colors by luminance/lightness and added a gray swatch for comparison so can
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    The general idea is: - Drag the hue and saturation curves to customise the tints/shades of a color. Look at the UI mockup as you do this to make sure the tints/shades look good together. - The color pairings used in the UI mockup
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I appreciate there's a lot of background here around color palette design, UI design, color spaces, and accessibility so I likely need something like a video or tutorial. Another route is to have the tool
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    I'm working on a tool for creating custom color palettes for web designs that pass WCAG contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ - You can precisely tweak every shade/tint so you can incorporate you
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    SEEKING WORK | UX/UI & web design Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/ Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m use
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    An editor for creating custom accessible color palettes for web/UI design. :) https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ It gives you precise control over every shade/tint (no AI or auto generation!) so you can incorporate
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    SEEKING WORK | UX/UI & web design Portfolio: https://seanw.org/ Live example projects: https://checkbot.io/ https://inclusivecolors.com/ Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m use
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/use-of-color.htm... says: > If content is conveyed through the use of colors that differ not only in their hue, but that also have a significant difference in li
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    I'm not following. These examples are using the WCAG2 contrast algorithm which is well known to be flawed for people interested in this stuff, especially for dark themes so there should be lots of bad examples here? APCA is supposed to
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    Maybe you've seen this but there's also https://github.com/Myndex/bridge-pca that does the "this color pair passes both APCA and WCAG2?" check in one pass.
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    Hi Alexei, thanks for your work on HSLuv! I love the simplicity of it, where you can use HSLuv as mostly a drop-in replacement for HSL which most designers are familiar with. I keep seeing new tutorials on designing accessible palettes that
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    by seanwilson 1y ago

    > I only bring it up because I had a situation last week where the better APCA was giving results for both white-on-colour and #111-on-colour as suitable for headline copy under WCAG3, but #111-on-colour was 7.5:1 and white-on-colour was