Eight important trends that will help you get ahead and be more inclusive with respect to disabilities in 2020 More focus on speech driven interfaces that don’t require perfect speech Speech interfaces (both input and output) were a huge trend…
I am an accessibility badass
You can be one too An email request came in, ending with: Please sign the letter with all those letters after your name. You know, BSc JD MBA CPACC BADASS After I stopped laughing, I realized that the requester paid…
Documenting Accessibility Decisions
The ability to focus and remember is a privilege, especially for people with disabilities. Which makes documenting accessibility decisions that much more important. Focus and memory are privileges, perhaps even more so, for people with disabilities, who are: more likely…
How business FOMO is the enemy of good accessibility
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…
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…