Lex Lofthouse

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✨ senior designer
πŸ—£ design & tech speaker
🐍 comic sans evangelist
Websitehttps://loftio.co.uk
Pronounsshe/her
I have updated my handle to include my own domain on Bluesky now: https://bsky.app/profile/loftio.co.uk
Lex Lofthouse (@loftio.co.uk)

✨ senior designer at Nzime πŸ—£ design & tech speaker 🐍 comic sans evangelist 😈 veteran pokΓ©mon tcg collector loftio.co.uk

Bluesky Social

I think I might have to retire Mastodon as a platform I use now.

I'm trying Bluesky as a Twitter alternative as that seems to be where a large majority of people have gone – find me there
https://bsky.app/profile/loftio.bsky.social

I don't have it in me to crosspost stuff, so hopefully see you there.

I've still got a Twitter account for the time being, but I can see me retiring from there soon too.

Lex Lofthouse (@loftio.bsky.social)

✨ senior designer at Nzime πŸ—£ design & tech speaker 🐍 comic sans evangelist 😈 veteran pokΓ©mon tcg collector loftio.co.uk

Bluesky Social
I am gutted to not be at ffconf today 😭 hope everyone has a fantastic time!

I'm (soft) launching my personal site! It took the better part of a year to get this done, I hope you take a look! I definitely have a few more things to work on, but not having it published was really killing any motivation to blog since I'd have to 'post' it twice, so look forward to more blog posts soon. πŸ“

(Looks the fanciest*~ in a browser that supports View Transitions)

https://www.nicchan.me/

Nic Chan

Nic Chan is a front-end web developer who specializes in design systems, accessibility and Shopify.

We're weeks away from WDC2024!

Our speaker lineup is almost complete and the schedule will be fully confirmed next week.

It's going to be another great event and we can't wait to see you all!

Tickets are just Β£100!

https://webdevconf.com/events/2024/

WDC2024 - The Bristol Web Conference, September 27 2024 | WDC

The one-day conference for designers and developers who create things on the web, based in Bristol UK at The Watershed. Speakers TBC!

Overwatch allowing this as a player title is CRIMINAL
My neighbour has some really optimistic washing hanging up on her line. It's kind of sad to watch as it flaps about getting soaked.

From time to time I work on some motion in After Effects. It is the scrappiest file in the world, built on the worst practices and 'long way rounds'... but somehow I get to a nice result in the end.

Yesterday I had to share one of my scrappy files with a professional motion graphics artist. I'm sorry.

@loftio I tested multiple design, prototyping and no-code tools last year to see if they are able to build accessible prototypes. Framer does have some accessibility features, but they are quite limited. At least at the time of testing last year. I would suggest using Webflow if you want the best accessibility experience.

Here you can find the results of all the tools I tested:
https://www.inthepocket.design/reports/accessibility-prototyping

Accessibility Prototyping Report

Discover which of the 10 prototyping tools we tested is best suited to build accessible prototypes

I have a question I'm too afraid to ask on Twitter.

Is Framer capable of creating accessible code or are no-code tools generally not good at that?