If only I had a nickel for every time I heard about this happening (alt: Phoebe and Joey from Friends where Phoebe is repeating one word at a time, Joey is repeating it back, Phoebe puts it all together in…
when you can’t expense a stapler, but you can make accessibility decisions that cost your company hundreds of thousands of dollars
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the decision to be inaccessible, was made deliberately or by accident. The legal costs, rework, and opportunity costs can be astronomical. Alt: Fry from Futurama “shut up and take my…
I don’t always test accessibility, but when I do, I only test with screen readers
The majority of the WCAG guidelines have to do with vision loss. That doesn’t mean that vision loss is the only thing that accessibility teams should be focused on. It means that it’s extremely difficult to take some thing that…
How do we Make our Products Accessible?
If only board room discussions about accessibility happened like they did in this meme. Alt: boardroom meeting suggestion meme. Cartoon man at the head of the table screams “how do we make our products more accessible?” Flunky number one says…
Only You can Prevent Inaccessible Code
Too many immature companies think accessibility is the accessibility team’s job. That results in compliance oriented accessibility. In fact, mature companies view accessibility as EVERYONE’s job. That’s how you get culture change. #AccessibilityMemeMomday #accessibility #inclusion #disability #diversity
Accessibility testing in SaaS environments can be tricky with respect to timing
Accessibility testing in SaaS environments can be tricky with respect to timing. SaaS inherently allows many updates frequently, and does not have to adhere to a strict release schedule. ACR/VPATs our accessibility documentation for the public sector that document accessibility…
Marked Safe From being called “Differently Abled” today
Yesterday was International Day of People with Disabilities. How did I celebrate? – I bought a belt for my elderly father and went grocery shopping with my mom – I did laundry – I put some Thanksgiving leftovers in the…
waiting for the accessibility tickets to make it into the backlog
1) It’s not enough to find the accessibility tickets, they have to be fixed. 2) It’s not enough to fix the tickets, they have to be prioritized at the same level of importance as feature defects. 3) If you haven’t…
Accessibility Meme: A common accessibility New Year’s Resolution is updating ACR/VPAT documentation
A common accessibility New Year’s Resolution is updating ACR/VPAT documentation. ACR stands for Accessibility Conformance Report and VPAT stands for Voluntary Product Accessibility Template. Having the same defects show up in consecutive ACR/VPATs is a sign that the accessibility team…
Accessibility Meme: One of the reasons why people think accessibility is expensive is repeated external audits
One of the reasons why people think accessibility is expensive is repeated external audits. If you are not ready to do anything with the audit results, don’t do the audit. Like food in a trash can, accessibility audit results deteriorate…