Pixels of the Week – August 24, 2025

Pixels of the Week is my weekly-ish curated newsletter for designers, UX folks, devs, and anyone building accessible, inclusive, usable (and let’s be honest, awesome) digital products. I share interesting articles, tools, inspiration, and resources I found during the week. This is the archive version. If you’d rather get it straight in your inbox (plus be notified when I publish other articles), subscribe to my newsletter.

Debunking the myth of “it’s hard to get an accessible yellow and purple” palette

There’s no such thing as inaccessible colors. It’s all about combinations. Yes, even yellow!
This week, I’ve decided  to debunk the old myth that “accessibility limits color choices.” I love yellow (have you seen my hair?) and purple (have you seen my website color palette?). Together, they prove you can design fun, vibrant, accessible palettes with so-called “tricky” colors. 

I built six WCAG-tested palettes to show that accessibility doesn’t limit creativity. And I turned the process into a full tutorial (with video) so you can learn how to build your own accessible color palettes in Figma.

Read the full article (and get the palettes)

I also designed a new icon for the accessibility section on my homepage  And, I’m working on new ADHD stickers!

Most popular content this week

WCAG vs EAA: Understanding where WCAG stops and where the EAA starts (8min) by Stark. So yes, you can pass WCAG AA and still fail to comply with the EAA’s digital product obligations… The EAA goes beyond the technical compliance: it requires products to work seamlessly with assistive technologies and be usable across the full customer lifecycle. And EAA Compliance also requires organizational readiness: embedding accessibility into company culture and operations. Like we do for privacy and security. Also as pointed out by Piccia Neri in the comments, a small mistake in the article: it says “The EAA is a law”. Just remember it’s not. It’s a European directive that is to be transposed as a law in each country. Big difference as each country will have different nuances in their own local law.

Interesting articles that caught my attention

Don’t Change the Company—Reflect It (6min) You can’t fight the company culture. If you can’t convince them to care about accessibility, you need to show how accessibility helps them do what they already care about: speed, trust, UX, etc. Use existing tools and workflows, and show how it helps teams do their jobs better, not harder. By Ted Drake.

Accessibility and the agentic web (8min) Retail websites often fail blind shoppers, offering no alt text, or vague ones on product images, that make choices risky. Léonie Watson explains that AI image description might be imperfect, but, they can still help. She also explains how Agentic AI can now act as a personal shopper, help finding, filtering, and adding items to the basket. It’s definitely an interesting shift. It’s also going to be an interesting challenge for accessibility: what happens if companies replace their traditional website with agentics that generate the information someone wants in the format they prefer?

Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies (12min) Assistive tech isn’t just screen readers. Demelza Feltham presents a super interesting list of different assistive technologies: from braille displays to smart glasses to hearing aids, eye trackers, speech-to-text, timers, browser reader modes and way more.

Style your underlines (4min) Listen to Jeremy, we shouldn’t rely on color alone to indicate that something is interactive. Make your links beautiful and accessible, underline them.

Curiosity cabinet: non-design/tech rabbit holes I enjoyed

The Kid Should See This: Smart videos for curious minds of all ages, organized in different categories. I love random knowledge, so this is a nice rabbit hole.

Inspiration: fun experiments, beautiful art, and great ideas

reuben wu draws aerial geometries with drones and lasers across remote landscapes, and those are beautiful

Posies Oh look I wasn’t sad, I just needed a cute font, with flowers. Is this a good idea for copy? Absolutely not. But, I love a good typography experiment, and seeing more color fonts!

BX Museum an amazing curated repository of brand artifacts, from magazines, print commercials, billboards, packaging and more, that lets you follow the evolution of that brand over time. I love the Lego one!

Pricing Pages bookmark this, you never know when you will need inspiration for a pricing page, or a pricing table!

Useful tools & resources

agoodmovietowatch a tool that claims that they’ve tracked down the best on every streaming service so you can watch what’s actually good. Good means “At least 7/10 on IMDb and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Then picked and reviewed by a human, no algorithms involved.”. Not sure how trustworthy this is, but it can be fun to discover new content.

scrt.link an online tool, to share a link that only works one time, and then self-destructs. What would you send with this?

wplace a massive live canvas, where you can paint over the whole world. There is no moderation, so, there might be some strange things in there.  In case you are curious about Luxembourg