Tag: overlay

Visually disruptive overlays AKA “those irritating pop-up things that seem to be everywhere nowadays”

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Paul Ratcliffe

Visually disruptive overlays are the new pop-up. You know the things I mean – you’ve followed a link to what looks like an interesting article, but as soon as you load the page the content you actually want to see is covered by a semi-transparent overlay exhorting you to profess your undying love for the […]

Accessible Scroll-triggered Modal Overlay using jQuery

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Paul Ratcliffe

(or “How to put a visually disruptive overlay in front of your users without annoying them so much they instantly leave your site”) This is the techie companion post to our discussion on visually disruptive overlays AKA “those irritating pop-up things that seem to be everywhere nowadays”. It gives the technique we use on the […]