Fear Of Missing Out is very present in the business world, not just personal social media. And it is very bad for PwDs and accessibility FOMO is defined as: Pervasive apprehension that an exciting or interesting event may currently be…
Cost per hour for Accessibility Testing Like all things tech, it widely varies based on location and levels of certification
Although I am usually not afraid of confrontation, this is an article that I have avoided writing about for a while. No matter what I write below, I’m going to piss someone off. Spending the last two months in a…
How Colleges have Ruined the College Admission
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…
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…
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…
My multi-day PG&E power shut off diary
PG&E and AT&T stupidity has devastating effects on everyone near where I live The first time PG&E tried to burn my house down, it was September, 2007. I was at work, and the CFO ran into my office shouting “I…
Disability Microaggressions — AKA “Ableist things people say”
Yes, all of these have actually happened to me personally What is a microaggression? A microaggression is an indirect, subtle, possibly unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group. Usually these take the form of statements, actions, incidents, or exclusions. Being excluded from…
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…