Accessible navigations

Designing Accessible Navigation Talk

About half year ago I was speaking accessible navigation patterns in Jyväskylä WordPress meetup. Designing Accessible Navigation is part two of that talk. It’s pretty much the same in the end but this time design had more focus. Anyways it was great to meet everybody after summer holidays in our WordPress Helsinki meetup! Here is the …

Accessible Navigation Patterns talk in Jyväskylä WordPress Meetup

New WordPress Meetup groups have been popping out lately more and more here in Finland. Jyväskylä WordPress Meetup and Turku WordPress Meetup are the newest meetups. I visited in Jyväskylä Meetup and talked about accessible navigation patterns. My goal was to bring awareness about accessibility. It’s not hard but needs a certain mind set: Can …

Accessible Full Screen Menu

You might argue is full screen menu good idea in the first place. But it can be attractive and useful in the same way as modal dialog when done right. First step is to make it fit in your site design. Not all sites have a natural place for full screen menu or modal dialog. Then work …

Accessible multi-level dropdown navigation

There are several ways to make complex navigation responsive. You might have heard terms like Off-canvas menu, Skip to footer menu or Multi-level dropdown menu. In every navigation patterns there are pros and cons. Probably the best navigation is without any sub menus and Hamburger icons on smaller screens. We’d just show the navigation links …

Accessible and Responsive navigation patterns

I have been wanted to learn about accessibility more and more. I feel like I know the basics already but there is always something new to learn. One thing that keeps puzzling me over and over again is how to create different types of responsive but more accessible navigation patterns. What kind of navigation patterns …