Companies are more likely to take care of its squeaky wheel customers. This is how you can squeak. How loud you squeak (and who joins you in squeaking) is up to you. You’ve found an accessibility problem, in a website…
How Colleges have Ruined the College Admission
Bulk emails have made it far too easy for colleges to spam parents in an attempt to influence their children on which higher education location to choose I woke up early on Veterans’ Day. I had done a lot of…
Elements of an accessible hotel room
It takes more than a roll-in shower to make a hotel room accessible For those of you without mobility issues, you may not know that there is a thing called an “accessible” hotel room. Recently returning from Quito from my…
Top 10 disability and accessibility TED talks and Videos
#9 isn’t about accessibility or disability at all, but still holds enormous value when thought about in an a11y/disability context I get pinged a lot by people asking for accessibility resources. Some accessibility resources are easy to find because they…
Federal accessibility laws don’t matter — California’s accessibility laws do
Ignoring California standards like the CCPA and Unruh Act will cause significant risk even for organizations based outside of the state. Federal laws are a minimum standard that must be followed by every entity they apply to in every US…
Website copy says more about your company than you think
Your corporate image will be hurt by beautiful, complicated language if you are leaving your users behind. A LinkedIn connection posted a critique of the following language in a press release. To protect the guilty, I have deleted the company…
Accessibility and Disability Blogging — one year anniversary
Here are a few things that I’ve learned In April 2018, I had been thinking about writing a book on accessibility. Blogging, I thought, would be a good way to meet my writing goals and would help me explore topics…