It is rare to find an accessible service cancellation or unsubscribe page. That unfortunate state of affairs makes it that much harder for people with disabilities to stop receiving ads or paying for ongoing services. The new ‘Click to Cancel’…
Accessibility Fail Friday on Health Insurance
This #AccessibilityFailFriday post is about one of every American’s least favorite topics: health insurance The image attached to this post is one I received from my insurer ahead of an appointment. It offers me guidance on how to calculate what…
Looking for a Job When You Have a Disability is Ridiculously Exhausting
Recently, I applied for a job. It was for a non-profit that specialized in providing job services for people with disabilities. So it makes sense that everything having to do with disability inclusion would be perfect, right? Yeah, about that.…
All Accessibility is Political: Understanding the Intersection of Accessibility, Disability, and Politics
You can’t talk about accessibility without talking about disability because accessibility is inherently tied to the experiences and needs of people with disabilities. When we explore accessibility for people with disabilities, we are talking about physical access to buildings as…
How to identify a Toxic Accessibility Culture, and what you can do about it
Urban dictionary defines “Dumpster Fire” as: 1. A complete disaster. 2. Something very difficult that nobody wants to deal with. In an immature organization, accessibility can unfortunately be both. Please interpret the below as the collection of my 15 years…
Fight Club, Parent Edition
When you are expecting a child, your mind fills with visions of a picture-perfect future. You think about first words, school pictures, friendships, proms, and the milestones of independence like getting their first driver’s license, job, or going to college.…
Groups that don’t care about people with disabilities
I can no longer support “disability as an afterthought” Authors note: Because of Medium’s refusal to address its accessibility issues for both authors and readers, I’ve moved my last three years of blogs to Substack. Please sign up there for notices of all…
Making word clouds and polling fully accessible to all meeting attendees
If you want to be perceived as inclusive, you have to BE inclusive. Otherwise, your words and actions are merely performative. Let’s face it; Zoom meetings can be tedious. An entire business sector has popped up, focusing on making presentations…
People with disabilities and sports
We want to be spectators. Many of us want to be or are, participants. So why is it that we face so many freaking barriers? As a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan for more than four decades and compound archery 2024 Paralympic…
Applying Ted Lasso management lessons to accessibility
I am one of a jillion people anxiously awaiting season 3 of Ted Lasso. One of the reasons for its popularity is the life lessons it teaches on management and relationships through the lens of dramatic comedy (aka “dramady”). Here…