Blog posts tagged
"accessibility"

6 posts

bethcollins
26 January 2022

Vanilla’s accessibility documentation process

Article Ubuntu

Following on from our previous post about accessibility by design, we’d like to share our accessibility documentation process here in the Web & Design team. In the Vanilla squad, we work hard to make sure the Vanilla framework is as accessible as possible. We don’t claim to be perfect, but accessibility is a real priority

bethcollins
26 January 2022

Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

Accessible by design: How we are designing for accessibility at Canonical

Article Design

In this blog post, I will talk about some of the most important considerations when it comes to building UIs that are accessible by design and how we are approaching this challenge at Canonical to continuously improve the accessibility of Vanilla, our open source design system and CSS framework. Background When I joined...

Marina Castejon
20 January 2022

Lyubomir Popov
3 November 2020

Accessibility audit of Vanilla framework

Article Design

The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert. We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to start with an internal audit, fix any...

Lyubomir Popov
3 November 2020

Inayaili de León Persson
26 January 2012

Some guidelines for warm grey text on the web

Article Ubuntu

Warm grey is one of the neutral colours from Ubuntu and Canonical’s colour palette. It has been added to the palette for balance, being a bridge between the vibrant orange and aubergine. The brand guidelines specify that warm grey (hex value: #AEA79F) can be used for: backgrounds, graphics, pictograms, dot patterns,...

Inayaili de León Persson
26 January 2012

Marcus Haslam
16 September 2011

Juju

Article Ubuntu

We are about to start the exciting job of branding juju (formerly Ensemble), I’m putting the brief out to you, please share your ideas and suggestions and of course publish them. We do have a deadline, so could we please have your designs whether sketches or otherwise by Friday 23rd and and we will review

Marcus Haslam
16 September 2011

Canonical
8 December 2010

Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801

Design Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate Idea #25801: Help the user understand when closing a window does not terminate the app. In other words, figure out to signal to the user that an application will

Canonical
8 December 2010