Accessibility Job Auditions
Photo by Xander Bissell on Unsplash “Job Auditions” — an interview process that includes doing actual work to prove that you CAN do a job before you are...
Accessibility issues that can’t be solved by tech
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash There are two different categories of thought on the WCAG accessibility guidelines: WCAG is a goal, something that one...
Accessibility is not an “add-on” service
Every week I get a handful of unsolicited LinkedIn messages from people/companies I’ve never heard of, almost always from outside the US. They claim to be...
Accessibility Interview Questions
Man using wheelchair and woman engaging in conversation in a business setting So, you got permission to bring an accessibility subject matter expert on...
Accessibility Fail Fast Testing Prep
4 black and white cartoon drawings of people falling — off a ladder, slipping on a floor, off a flight of stairs, and off a curb It was Thomas Edison who...
Accessibility Fail Fast — Execution
Part one is located here Accessibility Fail Fast Step 1: A smoke test using an automated accessibility test suite A smoke test is a non-exhaustive set of...
Accessibility Debt — What is it? How to pay it off ???
Cartoon young man kicking a can The accessibility paradigm shift from “yeah, eventually” to being included as part of “business as usual” usually derives...
Accessibility Checklists — Just say No
Checklist with Yes and No Options, red pencil, X in “no” checkbox I am an Accessibility Manager with 15 years of experience. No more general A11Y Checklists,...
Accessibility Charlatans
Many IT and diversity/inclusion professionals are now advertising themselves as digital accessibility subject matter experts without any relevant credentials...
Accessibility certifications: separating what IS good from what just sounds good
Certification is: a standardized method with a formal processthat individuals use to demonstrate that they are qualified at a specific level in particular...
Accessibility Bingo
Do you know that conference call Bingo meme? I adapted it for accessibility :-) I picked the 25 most annoying and impactful #AccessibilityFail behaviors that...
Accessibility best practices for screenreader testing
Chart from WebAIM survey #8 https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/ Chart description: The results of the annual WebAIM survey from 2019 shows the...
This week in accessibility: NFB v. EPIC
Recently, a Massachusetts district court decided in favor of a defendant who sold inaccessible software and dismissed a suit against them that was filed by...
This week in accessibility: Robles v. Domino’s
A network signal icon constructed from cartoon pepperoni pizza This week in Accessibility: Robles v. Domino’s The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals came out with...
This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga
Video window displaying beige cartoon female cartoon and Video window displaying beige cartoon female cartoon and automatically-generated caption “amber...
This Week in Accessibility: What we can learn from the “WebAIM Million”
A human hand reaching out being drowned in a sea of pages Summary of an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages This week being the syzygy of...
This Week in Accessibility: White v. Square
Cartoon iphone with “Payment $25 Accept/Decline” and a credit card and payment device connected at the top It’s not an accessibility case. White is a...
To Disclose, or not to Disclose
This article is not legal advice. If you have questions about how disclosing a disability can impact you legally, ask your attorney, who is most definitely...
Top 10 disability and accessibility TED talks and Videos
Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash I get pinged a lot by people asking for accessibility resources. Some accessibility resources are easy to find because they...
Toxic Positivity and Disabilities
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash My friend Debbie Levitt wrote an article about COVID-19 spam. I’ve only known Debbie for a few months, but our views on...