Alan Dalton

talk and articles

🎤 Recognise
my five-minute presentation about accessibility, from Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Dublin’s Defuse (Design for Use) event in 2025
👥 Good designers, bad websites: a proposal
my article—based on my Recognise presentation—for the iconic A List Apart website
♿️ trilogy of web accessibility articles for the 24 ways advent calendar
  1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Haven’t Read Them (2017)
  2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1—for People Who Haven’t Read the Update (2018)
  3. Future Accessibility Guidelines—for People Who Can’t Wait to Read Them (2019)

references

🌿 Authors Apart
tracking the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available since A Book Apart closed
🪜 Authors’ Simple Steps
tracking the authors’ preferred ways of making their books available since Five Simple Steps closed
🥋 combat applications of Jiu-Jitsu principles
a handy table for those of us who’ve read Rener Gracie’s The 32 Principles of Jiu-Jitsu

tools

đź§ş Should you hang out your washing today?
quick, plain advice on whether today’s weather will dry your clothes outside
⚔️ The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
a handy way to read the ancient Chinese military treatise
đź§® Compound Interest Calculator
a simple calculator for compound interest, with a conversational interface