I was excited for zen garden but didn’t see anything there that stood out as I was expecting more of a focus on the design rather than the css purist lens. There are some amazing things that can be done purely through css, https://a.singlediv.com/2014-2019/ comes to mind.
Not sure what the accessibility implications of (abusing?) html/css in this way are. Perhaps wrapping adding aria-role=figure would alleviate my concerns
There is also so much more to designing for low tech literate than spacing. The accessibility guidelines focus so much on UI and being able to see what is there, but don’t focus enough on understanding what can be done with the website/app. Making sure your buttons actually look like buttons is a decent start but knowing that you can press a button, what it will do as the action, and being able to undo it and go back are so so valuable to helping them learn how to engage with sites.
I first read this as a foreword to The Left Hand of Darkness and it has completely changed how I read. It’s important to understand that there is an agenda behind every book, not as a bad thing, but as a way to understand and explore how the author thinks and how they have been shaped by the real world that they live in and build from to create.
