When I was growing up, my father always said, “if you want to know who runs the show, ask an executive assistant.” He is rarely wrong. An executive assistant (EA) is an administrative professional who supports an organization’s executives. They…
Disability / Accessibility Language Choices
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 this three-part article, I talked about the four different sociological models of disability. To recap,…
Context is the most critical aspect of alt-text everyone seems to miss
This is the article I SWORE I would never write. But I have a different perspective on alt-text than most accessibility managers, so I decided to share it. Twenty-two months ago, when I started this blog, I swore I would…
Color Blindness Considerations for Designers and Content Managers
I recently read a Medium article on negative space published by a top design agency. The article had 5000 claps, so it was widely read. Unfortunately, the article’s primary example of good use of dark negative space was completely inaccessible…
Inaccessible Third-party Content and Code — Why it is Important, and How to Address it
In the United States, various parts of the federal government have made it painfully and consistently clear in its rulings that the federal government doesn’t care who created inaccessible content or code, if it’s on your site, then the site…