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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…

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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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Ethical design and accessibility

Design is not about expressing yourself. Design is not about following your dream. Design is not about becoming a creative. Design is about keeping people from doing terrible things to other people — Mike Monteiro Ethical design means thinking about your product in the context of its users…

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Radical Candor about Accessibility Day-to-day Job Responsibilities

Some days you get to tilt windmills, some days the windmills tilt you So far in the category of “accessibility as a career”, I’ve written articles about: Self-study tips for qualifying to work in accessibility Questions managers should be asking if they…

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Personas with Disabilities

Some people love personas. Some people hate them. But if if you have personas, and they are 100 % able-bodied, you are doing everyone a disservice Most articles on personas fall into one of three categories: Some articles think personas…

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Stop doing “Walk Throughs” and Start doing “Roll Throughs”

Using a “growth mindset” to understand the point of view of someone with a disability may help you identify issues before there are complaints. There are two types of mindsets according to Dr. Carol Dweck. The first is a fixed…

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Ten Behaviors that Require no Talent

Being on Time / Being Prepared Timing and preparation are a huge components in being successful at accessibility. If you start your accessibility work at the design stage, you are only slightly late. All of your project independent accessibility preparation such…

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Digital Accessibility Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Creating a metrics oriented hierarchy for tracking accessibility progress If you don’t know what an OKR is or why it is important to have them, please read this article first. If you are only going to skim it or don’t have time,…

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Accessibility Checklists — Just say No

I am a Accessibility Manager with 15 years of experience. No more general A11Y Checklists, PLEASE !!! There are so many articles touting themselves as general “accessibility checklists” that I’ve literally lost track. Even respected organizations like W3Cand WebAIM have published them. WCAG 2.1…

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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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