Category: Accessibility Fail Friday

Tell me you aren’t a senior accessibility consultant without telling me you aren’t a senior accessibility consultant. Which of these phrases is easier to read? Associate Accessibility Consultant or ASSOCIATE ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANT How about these hashtags hashtag#AssociateAccessibilityConsultant or hashtag#ASSOCIATEACCESSIBILITYCONSULTANT Using…

I rarely post two hashtag#AccessibilityFailFridays in one day, but this issue is too important to wait until next week. Two days ago, the head of the EEOC was removed, possibly illegally. Today, the new head of the EEOC ordered its…

Imagine this: you’re filling out a survey and come across a question instructing you to answer 1 for Yes and 0 for No. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the instructions are at the top of the page, and when…

WCAG does not apply to packaging. Or does it? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) set the standard for digital accessibility, not physical items. But consider this: as soon as a web page of that packaging gets created, that web…

I’m starting a new series today: #AccessibilityFridayFail On Fridays, I will post what I consider to be the biggest accessibility fail I have seen that week. This week’s entry comes from my job search, where I applied for a job…

#AccessibilityFailFriday week 2: Another job application mandatory field that shouldn’t be mandatory. No one wants to write a custom cover letter for every job application. And yet, on this job application it is required. I wonder how many of these…

You can’t have an #AccessibilityFailFriday series without talking about AI-generated captions. They are not a substitute for accurate transcription. One glaring example? A video where “because she had a cochlear implant” was captioned as “because she had a cocaine implant.”…