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Getting Connected when Remote

If the sudden requirements to be remote have affected your ability to communicate with students, staff, faculty, or even loved ones there’s some easy ways to connect or communicate online without much cost. Let’s start with the basics. Determine how many people you want to communicate with and how you want to communicate. If you’re…

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Remote Working and Teams – Tips and Tricks

At KWALL we are fortunate that our work is mostly capable of being carried out through digital means. We have remote staff across the globe working on our clients initiatives and support services. From the first day of having remote teams, we’ve come up with some best practices and thoughts that might help you work…

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CCPA – The California Consumer Privacy Act – Coming in Jan 2020

The continued focus on privacy and the rights to your own data / personal information has made managing a website much more complex. Recently the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – has now raised the question as to whether the measures companies have implemented to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will satisfy the CCPA. Unfortunately,…

Drupal 9 is Coming June 2020 – Are you Ready?

Managing enterprise software that continues to innovate is sometimes a complex process. Your partners here at KWALL want to help make sure you’re ready for that innovation and offer multiple methods to support you through updates and upgrades. If you’re interested in our help please let us know. Below we hope to add some clarity…

Web Heading Structure for Designers

      Designers are trained in understanding visual hierarchy through typography. The use of size, value, typographic color, weight and spacing all allow us to manipulate our readers focus. Designers often ask what will our viewer see first? What has the most weight? We answer these questions and design accordingly.While these questions are essential…

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Acquia Announces End of life for Mollom

      Coming in April 2018, Mollom a service we love to suggest to stop spam on Drupal based websites who have forms will be shutting down. Currently with about 37,000 websites using the platform there’s a need for alternatives. Here’s our suggestions:  1. Use Google’s ReCaptcha service: https://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha 2. Use the Honeypot module: https://www.drupal.org/project/honeypot 3. Use…

Accessibility Examples and Code

  Creating an inclusive web experience is more important than ever. Ensuring your website is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities, isn’t just a best practice—it’s a necessity. In this blog, we’ll explore practical examples and provide code snippets to help you implement key accessibility features. From improving screen reader compatibility to enhancing…

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Making Accessible Designs

All elements have a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 (7:1 AAA) other than: Large scale text and images can be 3:1 (4.5:1 AAA). Purely decorative, logos, or inactive elements that don’t matter, have no contrast ratio requirements. Designing for color contrast is straightforward in many situations. Contrast checkers take the background color and the foreground color,…

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