I wasn't happy with how I've implemented half-stars on my semlor.info website. It made use of a "dimmed" colour. Even though the rating is written out in text elsewhere, it wanted to improve it.

Sadly the half star unicode character is badly supported and "tofu" in all the places I tested. https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2BE8

So instead I've gone for a css based solution. Take a look at this Codepen: https://codepen.io/beantin/pen/VYKKzVq

I've done a lot of work this season in expanding and improving my website with reviews of Semlor (the Swedish lent bun).

I'd be really interested to get feedback from people regarding the accessibility of it. Is there anything that isn't great and could be improved?

There are a lot of alt descriptions still to be written, but I'm working on it. The newer reviews all have high quality ones 🙂
https://semlor.info/

#semlor #a11y #t12t #semla #accessibility

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/115606336344833098

Many great insights.

Here's one...

"if you spend a majority of your time in front of a computer looking at a screen that's larger than 10", you live in a privilege bubble."

When did you last do any user research?

I've worked with teams that know research is a Good Thing, and want to do more, but struggle to keep up momentum. There are always reasons (and excuses!) as to why. 🙂

Over the years, I've found that reminding teams of when they last talked to users can work really well for nudging them towards making it happen more often.

So, I've made a tiny tool to help you with that.

Talk to users!

https://talktousers.beantin.net/

It's just struck me that the AI boom is perhaps the best global wealth tax ever executed, given the amount of investment coming from the tech giants own reserves, rich (private) investors and sovereign wealth funds.

That's something to put on the list of positives! 😂