Crafting an accessible site is a multidisciplinary task for sure. One of the things that designers can do early in the process is ensure readability. A big part of this is font size and color choices that are contrasty enough to read.

Here are two (Mac) tools that can help:

• Contrast A helps pick foreground and background colors that meet minimum contrast standards
• Frank DeLoupe gives you an eyedropper anywhere–awesome

I heard about both of these from Brad Frost and Dan Mall’s designer/developer workflow video.

Brad Frost and Dan Mall posted a video of them collaborating on a site redesign. For nearly two hours, they are live designing, coding and narrating their process–I watched the whole thing. I imagine that this is what it’s like for gamers watching a great team on YouTube or Twitch.

Here are several points that really stood out to me:

• On designing in the browser
• “Everything that I make is discardable”
• “The tools don’t matter, its all means to an end”
• Dev shouldn’t be paralyzed, iterating on the real stuff
• Do all things, all of the time
• Designers can own some of the code (e.g. variables, design tokens)
• Use the right tool for the job
• “Clients need to see the comp to sign off”
• Not all code is implementation
• On designer/developer collaboration
• Everybody’s energy should be going into building the best product possible
• Overview of the collaborative process