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...
Transitioning from being a manager to an individual contributor
Nine months ago, I was presented with a choice. My job responsibilities had grown beyond the ability of one person to manage the role. Even though I thought...
Twitter and Inaccessible “Voice Notes”
Photo by Yucel Moran on Unsplash Once upon a time (in tech, this is maybe 2–3 years ago), Twitter actually cared about accessibility. For a while, they were...
Uber, CVS, and Rite Aid in the news over disability discrimination
Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash Rite Aid settled a case last week with the Department of Justice, which required them to make their COVID portal and...
Using plain language is essential for content accessibility
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash When writing for your audience, it’s essential to keep things simple at the lowest common denominator for your audience. If...
Vetting accessibility vendors
It used to be there were just a handful of major accessibility vendors in the game. SSB Bart Group (now Level Access), Deque, and Cryptzone (now Cyxtera) And...