Maybe accessibility doesn’t come from a store. Maybe accessibility perhaps means just a little bit more? In this holiday season, here are a few notes on how not to be “Grinch-like” in your accessibility activities. Accessibility isn’t a feature, it’s…
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…
Improving Native App Accessibility via Haptics
Haptics are a very important extra sense that all apps should consider using. But like anything related to motion, what you can turn on, must also have an “off” switch If you are interested in haptics, you might also be…
Accessibility tools and plugins that designers should be using
The article “Best Chrome Plugins Designers should be using” did not contain any accessibility plugins. There, I fixed that for you 🙂 Designers have their choice of countless tools, many of which are convenient plugins that are integrated with Chrome.…
Accessibility and Open Source
Open Source projects can improve adoption and spread the “accessibility love” if they make their base code work for people with disabilities. Contributors can help. More and more companies are either consuming or producing open source software. However, very few…
Building a Robust Accessibility Program
VMware is building a new high-impact accessibility program for its customers with disabilities The number one reason why people with disabilities are frequently unable to use software is the failure of those that own and control the software or content…