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Most developers aren’t intentionally hostile to accessibility. They just weren’t taught about its importance. Plus, change is hard. Building accessibility into an inaccessible organization requires more than a style guide or a WCAG checklist. Successful change requires understanding what actually…

You commissioned a website. The agency delivered. The site contains blood, sweat, tears, and no small amount of your organization’s money. And then, you find out about Title II. Alternatively, you may receive a demand letter. The agency that built…

User researchers have exhaustively explored the pros and cons of having the submit button active throughout form entry versus validating each field before allowing the user to proceed, and only exposing the submit button when there is a valid value…

In the rush to make digital products accessible, many teams lean on a single accessibility score or grade to convey how good (or bad) a product is from the accessibility point of view. An example of this might be 92…

Most organizations start their accessibility journey in reactive mode. A complaint arrives. A defect ticket opens. A fix ships under pressure. The immediate barrier may disappear, yet the system that created it stays intact. Over time, the same issues resurface…

It seems appropriate on International Day of People with Disabilities to reflect on what makes great accessibility. It’s important to remember that accessibility is not a box to check or a one-time effort. Great accessibility is an ongoing commitment rooted…

Every week, well-known employment lawyers post articles about current litigation where organizations discriminated against people with disabilities and thus they left the company under the concept known as “constructive discharge.” Constructive discharge, as defined by the EEOC, is “when a…

“Blind Barbie” is all the rage recently. Barbie has become increasingly inclusive over the past decade, including Barbies with different skin tones, hearing aids, vitiligo, alopecia, a wheelchair-using Barbie, a Skipper with a prosthetic leg, the facial characteristics associated with…

I read a lot of articles about accessibility, and also try out a lot of accessibility-related products. Some of them are very, very good. Others are cringe-worthy. These are the signs that I use to determine which to read to…