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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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Accessible New Years’ Resolutions — Touch Target Size

As previously promised, I am going to to a deep dive every month on implementing features associated with the new WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines. Last month’s discussion was on the deadline for implementing the new guidelines. This month’s deep dive is…

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The accessibility issue more people with disabilities should think about

Accessible Cryptocurrency and Blockchain The problem people with disabilities have with currency is as old as currency itself. People with disabilities live in a world where: Coins are heavy, easy to drop, and hard to pick up. In the US…

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How to Stop People from Filing Repeat ADA Lawsuits

I have a confession to make. I am a “serial filer” Last year, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a change to its case-processing manual which encouraged investigators to dismiss complaints without investigation if multiple complaints had come from the…

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Embedding Accessibility SMEs in Remote Teams

Reading yet another brilliant article by Jared Spool on mature design programs combined with an accessibility resource conversation I had at R&D orientation with my new employer earlier this week reminded me that I have seen no online discussions about embedded accessibility…

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Accessibility Interview Questions

So, you got permission to bring an accessibility subject matter expert on board. What accessibility-related questions do you ask candidates to figure out if they actually know what they are doing, especially if you are not an accessibility subject matter…

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You might be #Diversish if …

(with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy) ‘Diversish’ is a satirical term for businesses that call themselves diverse, but overlook, ignore or postpone anything having to do with disabilities. If you haven’t heard the word Diversish before, you probably need to watch this…

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