Interview Accommodations: A Legal Necessity, not a Favor
Woman in wheelchair speaking with two other women in a business setting When companies talk about diversity and inclusion, they often forget about a crucial...
Accessible Color Choices Are About So Much More Than Just Contrast
Colorful paint chip strips fanned out in a circle Most accessibility conversations about color stop at the contrast ratio between a foreground color and its...
What do prechopped vegetables and self-tying shoes have in common?
Six transparent resealable bags arranged in two rows, containing assorted vegetables and produce including mushrooms, sliced onions, asparagus, mixed...
Accessibility Game Theory
Woman intensely staring at a chessboard Why do capable organizations keep buying and building inaccessible products, and how do you change the payoffs? Game...
Practical Guidelines for Making Destructive Actions Accessible
AI-generated screen that says “Deleting Data” surrounded by admin-like messages A destructive action permanently changes or removes data. These include...
Bend, Do Not Break: Building Resilient Accessibility Programs
AI generated image of tree that has grown sideways because of the wind A passing audit measures a system on its best day, in a stable environment, with the...
The Problem with Blanks for People Who Are Blind or Low Vision
A computer with a completely white screen sitting on a wooden desk surrounded by foliage A sighted person glances at an empty space and reads it as part of a...
So, Your WordPress Theme Isn't Accessible: How to Fix It Using a Phased Plan That Survives Updates
Laptop with “WordPress” logo on screen. Agency Name/Contributor Name – stock.adobe.com You love your WordPress theme. It took hours to get everyone to agree...
Partial Accessibility Is Sometimes Worse Than No Accessibility at All
Doors closing that dissolve around the edges Claude responded: To people who do not use assistive technology, partial accessibility sounds like a reasonable...
WIIFM: The Motivational Question Behind Every Accessibility Conversation
Black and white text that says WIIFM: What’s In It For Me Every person sitting through your accessibility presentation is silently asking the same question:...
The Faces Age Verification Cannot Read
Five people with colored pieces of paper covering their faces TL;DR: Half of U.S. states now require online age verification, and the systems doing the...
GAAD 2026: Not Much to Celebrate, Yet
Beat up sign that says “meh” against a dirty concrete wall Tomorrow is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. If you are expecting a post full of colored...
Know Your Accessibility Testers Before You Need To
Pad on a desk with the words Strength and Weakness separated by a vertical line Most accessibility managers have a vague sense of who their strongest team...
Restricting Vendor Use of AI in Client Engagements
A number of domino-like pieces of wood. The left half has fallen over, and the right half is standing. A line drawing of a person is in between these two...
You can’t audit your way into accessibility culture change
Torso of a female appearing person in front of a laptop and a tablet at a desk with numerous audit badges appearing above the devices Accessibility audits...
Think About What You Feed Into Generative AI BEFORE The Demand Letter Arrives
AI-generated picture of a blurry person working on a laptop, feeding data into a chatbot You have been using generative AI to do your job better. You asked...
Two SDNY Decisions in One Week Show Courts Are Done Messing around with Questionable Accessibility Litigation
Blurry courtroom with the scales of justice in the foreground Courts in SDNY have been showing their impatience with repetitive, cookie-cutter accessibility...
Locked Out: Why OTP and 2FA Often Fail Users with Disabilities
Shadow of an individual trapped inside a mobile device with their hands pressed up against the screen from the inside Two-factor authentication (2FA) and...
Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it
Paper wire frame of a generic website You commissioned a website. The agency delivered. The site contains blood, sweat, tears, and no small amount of your...
Getting Developers to Care about Accessibility: Carrots and Sticks
Two technology professionals standing at a large monitor, looking at user journeys Most developers aren't intentionally hostile to accessibility. They just...