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Jan Maarten – Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer

Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer, and future hermit.

I help people design things well by leveraging several decades of experience crafting inaccessible crap. I also make tools and write docs people actually read.

Creations

Figma Community

Web Accessibility Annotation Kit

I led the creation of this annotations kit for CVS Health as it became one of their top Figma libraries, with 150,000+ annotations made across 1,100+ design files.
Figma Community

iOS Accessibility Annotation Kit

This annotation kit is designed specifically for native iOS apps to encourage designers to consider the needs and expectations of iOS users sooner in the design process.

Writing

A computer desk and knocked over chair in a dark room. The monitor has two robot arms extending, grabbing at Polywork badges.

How social networks prey on our longing to be known

An up close an personal look into why we should be extremely careful when sharing about ourselves online, no matter how shiny an app or network might be.
Privacy
30 min read
Parody cover of the film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. The actors have been replaced by sock puppets with big googly eyes.

Socks, lies, and accessibility

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is around the corner. Looking back at last year, I found some troubling things people in this field should be aware of. Because they're likely to be repeated.
Accessibility
9 min read
Fixing keyboard focus on Ghost bookmark cards

Fixing keyboard focus on Ghost bookmark cards

Since moving this site to Ghost(Pro), I've found very few gripes with it. It's not perfect, but it beats platforms like Medium or WordPress by a mile. There are only two things that really bug me.
Accessibility
4 min read
Announcing a new Web Accessibility Annotation Kit from CVS Health Inclusive Design (Medium.com)

Announcing a new Web Accessibility Annotation Kit from CVS Health Inclusive Design (Medium.com)

The CVS Health® Inclusive Design team has created new Figma annotation kits for multiple platforms. Today, we are releasing the first of these tools for...
Annotations
3 min read
Close-up of a laptop screen showing WordPress code

Building a Portfolio in Public (Updated)

An evolving account of what I'm working on and what I want to change about this site (including all the stuff that's broken or inaccessible).
Updates
1 min read
C-SPAN footage from a hearing on disability rights and international law at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Moving Beyond the Bare Minimum

Ever wonder who specifically afforded us in Design and Tech the privilege to ignore or pass the buck on Accessibility? I'll no longer be doing that.
Certifications
7 min read
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