Or are they #Diversish? Hint: It’s not just about the subject in the photo, it’s also about how the photos are staged If at least 10 % of your photos with people in them don’t have disabilities represented, you are clearly…
Make People with Disabilities Part of your Accessibility Testing Program
Do you have an optimal accessibility testing program abilities mix? Let’s say you need surgery. You go to a surgeon in your insurance network. “Sure I can do this surgery,” the surgeon says. “How many times have you done this…
Is there a bias against disability in your Unconscious Bias training?
Disabilities are largely ignored in most unconscious bias training. Here’s why that is important and how to fix it. What is Unconscious Bias? Unless you have been hiding under a rock, if you live in the US you have probably…
You think there are no people with disabilities in IT? Think again.
Stack Overflow Survey of 90,000 participants shows a significant number of global developers self-identifying with disabilities When you think you are the the only person in a particular situation, it is always hard. The lack of representation is difficult in…
This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga
In case you forgot what was going on (it’s been a while) here is the procedural history so far: 2015 — NAD files lawsuit for Harvard’s failure to provide close captioning 2016 — Court denied Harvard’s motion to stay / dismiss based on jurisdiction 2016 — NAD…
Running Accessible Meetings and Events
A primer to make the lives of participants with disabilities better. As someone in technology with a long-standing mobility problem, I have been to a LOT of meetings. Looking just from the perspective of access, most of them have been…
People with Disabilities — Big Brother Wants to Watch You
You know you are a society in turmoil when there is so much bad news in the political world that this New York Times headline got completely overlooked in the other chaos in New Zealand and with Manafort and Mueller:…
Accessible Social Media
Including, not excluding, people with disabilities from social media platforms is not hard. But it does require attention to detail Social media is a very popular tool among people with disabilities to stay connected despite the fact that most social…
User Research with People with Disabilities
I was really excited this week to be presenting at the #PacRim2019 conference on UX research involving people with disabilities, one of my favorite things to talk about. I will be giving the same talk with with my co-presenter David…
You might be #Diversish if …
(with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy) ‘Diversish’ is a satirical term for businesses that call themselves diverse, but overlook, ignore or postpone anything having to do with disabilities. If you haven’t heard the word Diversish before, you probably need to watch this…