Are you guilty of “inspiration porn”?
Man with prosthetic leg exercising in Gym Inspiration porn is portraying people with disabilities as: inspirational solely or in part on the basis of their...
Are you Disability Compliant? Or Disability Competitive?
Disability Compliant is asking people to identify whether they are disabled on a questionnaire anonymously. Disability Competitive is conducting an annual...
Are bad graphical descriptions better than no graphical descriptions to someone with vision loss?
Customer service stoplight chart with red sad face, yellow neutral face, and green happy face This is the first part of a two-part article. The second part,...
Are bad captions better than no captions?
In the first part of this article, I explored whether bad image descriptions were better than no image descriptions. After consulting with many blind users,...
Applying Ted Lasso management lessons to accessibility
Used with permission from https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/originals/ted-lasso/episodes-images/ I am one of a jillion people anxiously awaiting season 3 of Ted...
“Anything else you want to tell us?” is not a valid substitute for “do you need an accommodation?”
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash In the first of two articles I have recently published on accommodations, I addressed what accommodations are. The second...
Answering the question “Are you accessible?”
I despise the Museum of Ice Cream. Don’t get me wrong, I *love* ice cream. Anything with chocolate in it, for the win. The more dark chocolate (especially...
An open letter to vendors seeking customers via social media
I just passed 10,000 connections on LinkedIn, largely curated around three main areas of subject matter. Not surprisingly to anyone who knows me, these areas...
An award-winning business product that is the opposite of inclusion
Q.Workntine pod (photo from Business Insider) On paper, “Q.workntine” is the kind of innovative product people fawn over, and investors throw money at...
An accessibility review of the new Medium site
At the beginning of February, Medium launched a new format. I have highlighted Medium’s lack of concern over severe accessibility problems in a previous...
All the Things You Shouldn’t Be Evaluating During Interviews
Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash There are all kinds of advice on the Internet about things you should be evaluating when you conduct an...
All the reasons you might not have gotten that job
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash Over the last few months, I have spent time mentoring people finding themselves out of work courtesy of COVID-19. Some have...
A Happy Accessibility Article
A lot of accessibility articles (mine included) are negative and/or depressing. On any given day, at least half of the articles I see have titles like: How...
Advice for the Aspiring Accessibility Tester / Manager
Last updated June 13, 2022Authors note: Coming up on 3 1/2 years of writing on Medium with more than 250,000 reads, I’ve decided to go back and update/clean...
Addressing accessibility requirements in design briefs
Photo by Felipe Furtado on Unsplash A design brief is a description of a project and corresponding drawings (comps and wireframes, for example) created by a...
ADA lawsuit costs are WAY more than just the settlement
Karl Groves wrote an amazing article this week on the ROI on Accessibility. This is a topic near and dear to my heart and one I am considering for my PhD...
ACR /VPAT Consumption and Production
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is the premier global advocate for technology, representing the world’s most innovative companies. ITI...
Accessible Social Media
Picture of hands swiping on a phone with words representing Friends, Community, Sharing, Blog, Follow, Networking, and icons representing music and email...
Accessibility tools and plugins that designers should be using
Designers have their choice of countless tools, many of which are convenient plugins that are integrated with Chrome. If you are a designer and are not...
Accessibility — Separate but Equal is Never OK
This week, the US DOT ruled that Scandinavian Airlines’ separate site for people with disabilities was against the DOT’s web accessibility requirements. SAS...