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…
This Week in A11Y: Are gift cards w/ Braille a good idea or required by law??
The firms that brought you website accessibility lawsuits have now moved into litigating over the lack of Braille on gift cards Starbucks has Braille gift cards. I thought they were pretty dang cool when I saw them for the first…
Improving Native App Accessibility via Haptics
Haptics are a very important extra sense that all apps should consider using. But like anything related to motion, what you can turn on, must also have an “off” switch If you are interested in haptics, you might also be…
Scaling Accessibility
In an enterprise software world, accessibility isn’t always about testing a handful of simple websites with homogeneous data and predictable release cycles. Sometimes accessibility has to scale. A presentation based on the topic at the center of this article was submitted…
You don’t get a “pass” to discriminate against people with disabilities in an emergency
People with disabilities are the ones guaranteed to get disproportionately ****ed over in any type of emergency At 2 pm yesterday, I got the expected call from PG&E notifying me of an impending power outage at 8 pm. In their…