Yeah, machine learning and personalization made the list, but I also have a couple of other thoughts. It’s time for the annual “Year-End” accessibility predictions.…
Make a New Year’s Resolution to add anti-ableism to your skillset from 2021 going forward. As I start to think about the standard “year-end” /…
It’s *finally* gotten harder to hide discriminatory comments. Pre-COVID, they were called “Hot Mic” incidents. Situations where people didn’t realize their microphone was live, and…
The short answer is “absolutely.” The long answer, of course, is more complicated than that. First of all, disabilities are almost always thought of in…
For starters, for every 1 % increase in people with disabilities working, $25 billion would be added to the US economy. Many people start the year with…
Traditional candidate evaluation advice can be biased and ableist. There are all kinds of advice on the Internet about things you should be evaluating when…
Software development and the “doctrine of foreseeable misuse.” There is a portion of the American legal system under the category of negligence called “strict product liability,”…
There is global and personal variation on what is considered acceptable and preferable. This is how I decide what language to use. In the first part of…
The next stage of evolution in how the global community views disability Part one of a three-part article. See part two on language choices associated…
Everything that makes accessibility difficult ties back to one root cause: People not giving a damn about others who are different. These are the different…
AB 979 law has a much too narrow definition of “underrepresented communities,” leaving out many identities who deserve to be included. AB 979 was signed into…
February 26, 2021, is the deadline to submit comments. The first peek at the long-awaited World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) major update to the Web Content Accessibility…
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