Creating a metrics oriented hierarchy for tracking accessibility progress If you don’t know what an OKR is or why it is important to have them, please read this article first. If you are only going to skim it or don’t have time,…
Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk
Wait, I can get sued for using Wix and GoDaddy?? What the Actual Heck?!?! Why yes. Yes, you can. In a heart beat. Here is a little background on how this story came into being. I’ve recently spent an absolutely mind…
“Hello, Sir”
How one thoughtless word can destroy a potential vendor relationship or cost you a job or hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have been in tech a really, really, really long time. I’ve reached the tipping point where frequently I’ve…
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…
The True Cost of Disability
In the middle of a stream of accessibility conferences, I have given a lot of thought over the past two weeks about what it means to be disabled. When I was a young child, I didn’t understand that I was…
Accessibility Checklists — Just say No
I am a Accessibility Manager with 15 years of experience. No more general A11Y Checklists, PLEASE !!! There are so many articles touting themselves as general “accessibility checklists” that I’ve literally lost track. Even respected organizations like W3Cand WebAIM have published them. WCAG 2.1…
This Week in Accessibility: What we can learn from the “WebAIM Million”
Summary of an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages This week being the syzygy of accessibility conferences, WebAIM took the opportunity to publish its accessibility analysis of the top one million web pages consisting of home pages from 730 unique top-level domains, .com (521,316), .org…
This Week in Accessibility: Bartleson v. Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Disabled Employees suing Employers over Inaccessible Technology is the next logical evolutionary step in ADA / accessibility lawsuits Most people who work in accessibility by now are tired about hearing about the year over year (for the past 4 years)…
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…
The “perilous pitfalls” of Accessibility Maturity
Several people pointed me to an article titled “How to Avoid the 24 Perilous Pitfalls of UX Maturity” from Human Factors International. There are a lot of parallels between this article and accessibility maturity with a few deviations. This article is…
