Why COVID-19 contact tracing apps *must* be accessible
People with disabilities should benefit from emergency software. They also WANT to participate. Contact tracing won’t work without them.
Post-COVID employment changes that will benefit everyone, but especially people with disabilities
Who wants to “go back to normal” when “normal” wasn’t so hot anyway?
People with disabilities control $8 trillion in spending
Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash I use the figure “$8 trillion” in many of my accessibility training sessions as the value of the global disability...
The US Pharmacy System — A cautionary tale
This is what I had to go through to get my Rheumatoid Arthritis medication reinstated post-COVID, and the costs in time, money, and pain
Why ERG volunteer work is both important and masochistic
ERG roles can contribute to the fatigue/burnout that *every* underrepresented minority experiences at least once (and sometimes continually) in their lives
Ten basic accessibility facts
All accessibility managers should be comfortable communicating the following facts and the reasons behind them.
More lawsuits filed against companies using accessibility plugin/overlays
ADP has been sued for inaccessibility despite using a popular overlay. The rest of the cases involving overlays have been small potatoes by comparison.
Organizations with $33 Billion in annual revenue were sued over accessibility in one week last month
2020 accessibility lawsuits are on track to be close to 50 % higher than either 2018 or 2019. This article reviews a single week’s worth of those lawsuits.
Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful
Don’t use this as an excuse. Even awful is better than 98 % of what other people are doing.
Received an accommodations request? Think twice before turning it down
This is Part 2 of a two-part article. Read Part 1, The Manager’s Practical Guide to Handling an Employee Newly Diagnosed With a Disability here. What are...
What people with disabilities hope to see in a Biden Presidency
After four years of ridicule and inattention to PwDs being completely normalized, the future is looking slightly brighter.
Silver (WCAG 3.0) First Public Working Draft released.
February 26, 2021, is the deadline to submit comments.
This Week in Accessibility: First lawsuit filed over lack of captions in VR
This most recent accessibility litigation evolution has been predicted for the past couple of years by ADA legal experts.
My top 10 favorite disability/ accessibility articles of the year
Picking your favorite articles when you’ve written 145 of them in the past 12 months is like picking your favorite kids.
Starting a new accessibility remediation project?
Marie Kondo’ing the project first will get you to your goal faster.
Where to go for accessibility help when you are stuck
There are lots of resources, some obvious, some not so obvious
Why I seldom turn on my video for Zoom calls
Body Dysmorphia Disorder (BDD) and increasing anxiety rates are significant issues for people now spending 8 hours a day or more on Zoom.
Ten Tips for Creating Effective Accessibility Workshops
For starters, re-imagine your all-day workshop in an “all you can eat buffet” format, not a single 12-course dinner.
Sustainability starts with disability inclusion and accessibility.
For starters, for every 1 % increase in people with disabilities working, $25 billion would be added to the US economy.
One good thing the pandemic has changed forever
It’s *finally* gotten harder to hide discriminatory comments.