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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…

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Scaling Accessibility

In an enterprise software world, accessibility isn’t always about testing a handful of simple websites with homogeneous data and predictable release cycles. Sometimes accessibility has to scale. A presentation based on the topic at the center of this article was submitted…

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You don’t get a “pass” to discriminate against people with disabilities in an emergency

People with disabilities are the ones guaranteed to get disproportionately ****ed over in any type of emergency At 2 pm yesterday, I got the expected call from PG&E notifying me of an impending power outage at 8 pm. In their…

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Accessibility Retrospectives

Reflect on your wins and identify things you wish had gone differently An agile retrospective (sometimes called a post-mortem) is a gathering of interested and involved parties at the end of a sprint to review the project’s events and learn…

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Dark UI themes are new and cool — but are they accessible?

Dark mode is one of those new, hot design features that is generating a lot of “buzz”. Apple and Slack, for example, have been pushing dark themed pages hard lately. However, it appears that not much thought has been given…

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Accessibility and Motion

How to design the delightful user experience you want for your sighted / non-motion sensitive users, without triggering distraction, nausea and migraines in the rest of us “Moderation in all things is the best policy.” – Roman comic dramatist Plautus…

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ADA lawsuit costs are WAY more than just the settlement

When performing accessibility risk assessment, there are many costs you must include in your calculations in addition to plaintiff payouts Karl Groves wrote an amazing article this week on the ROI on Accessibility. This is a topic near and dear to my…

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Even free software needs VPATs …

…If you want a Section 508-regulated organization to use it. Part 2 of a multi-part series on accessibility and open source software. Read Part 1 here. Accessibility Myth: Free software doesn’t require VPATs. VPATS are only required when software is purchased. Accessibility…

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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…

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Accessibility Bingo

This is not a game you want to win. Especially in Blackout mode You know that conference call Bingo meme? I adapted it for accessibility 🙂 I picked the 25 most annoying and impactful #AccessibilityFail behaviors that I could think…

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