In the middle of a stream of accessibility conferences, I have given a lot of thought over the past two weeks about what it means to be disabled. When I was a young child, I didn’t understand that I was…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Behaviors to Achieve Accessibility Program Excellence
In a previous article, I highlighted activities that I think help people become good (or better) accessibility managers through improving their objective accessibility knowledge. While the activities identified in that article will provide individuals with a baseline of objective accessibility knowledge,…
This week in Accessibility: Gomez v. GNC
Gomez v. GNCshould serve as a warning to any company facing an accessibility lawsuit as to the importance of their accessibility experts actually being experts in accessibility. This case started as many digital accessibility lawsuits do: 1. Person with Disability…