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Creating a collaborative and evidenced content style guide by Lizzie Bruce
Originally posted on Gather Content January 2019 Imagine an open wiki with universal guidelines for inclusive content style. Evidenced, and iteratively updated. Well for the last 10 weeks I’ve been working on Sarah Richards’ collaborative Readability Guidelines...
read moreWhy do tables make content less accessible? by Lizzie Bruce
This article stems from a tweet I almost sent… I’d been trying to find clear reasons explaining why tables are not an accessible way to present content, except data. I know they’re not, but the person I needed to convince wanted external proof, and a more detailed...
read moreCDL’s January 2019
Last week, we had a team meeting. Whilst this is not earth-shaking news, there are some things that might interest you so we thought we would blog about it. 1. On Twitter, we are now @ContentDesignLN We changed this because we are now an established team and credit...
read moreGetting sign off from academics by Georgina Brooke
Context: I have just launched series of websites for Gardens (www.obga.ox.ac.uk), libraries (forthcoming) and Museums (www.ashmolean.org and www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk ; Pitt Rivers Museum and Museum of the History of Science: forthcoming) of the University of Oxford. When I...
read moreReadability Guidelines Beta update: 4 by Lizzie Bruce
18 December has been and gone… sadly, the Beta phase of the Readability Guidelines project is over. But we’re keeping all the Slack topic discussion channels open. So, you’re still able to add thoughts and usability evidence there at any time, as well as to the public...
read moreContent Design 2018/19
This is one of those round-up posts. 2018 has been pretty lovely and I am massively grateful to you for allowing me to be part of this fabulous content industry. People We’ve gone from 3 people: me (Sarah), Ruth (social media manager who has been with me from the...
read moreReadability Guidelines Beta update: 3 by Lizzie Bruce
It’s December, and Readability Guidelines Beta is coming to an end. But we’ve got until 18 December to keep discussing the topics together. Plus you can add evidence at any time to the Readability Guidelines wiki! Since the last update we’ve looked at readability of...
read moreContent sprints – matching user needs with business goals by Hinrich von Haaren
In our content sprints we help organisations figure out a solution to a particular content problem. A sprint is 2 weeks. Sometimes it takes one sprint to tackle a content problem, sometimes it can be 2 or 3 sprints. It really depends on how complex the project...
read moreReadAbility Guidelines Beta update: 2 by Lizzie Bruce
Readability Guidelines is continuing as a Beta until week of 18 December. We’re now at the end of week 5 of this 10 week project, so halfway through – already. It’s gone so fast. Since the last update we looked at numbers and then had a multi-topic session on...
read moreLorem ipsum is dead. Hallelujah! by Yael Ben-David
Lorem ipsum sucks. And to my delight, it’s becoming a thing of the past. According to Wikipedia: “In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document without relying on meaningful content....
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