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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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Nothing Without Us and the Accessible Canada Act

Canada flexes its accessibility superpower muscles by passing the Accessible Canada Act and beginning the campaign “Nothing Without Us” As a Canadian, I couldn’t be prouder of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act: An Act to Ensure a Barrier-free Canada and the “Nothing…

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Captioning: It’s Time for a Revolt

What if every person who was deaf, Deaf, had hearing loss (plus those peoples’ friends and family) refused to do business with a company that didn’t caption its videos? I saw an article recently, which identified strategies that business people who don’t…

How the Gig Economy impacts People with Disabilities

Participating in the gig economy is a mixed bag and not even always available to people with disabilities For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last five years, a gig economy engagement is defined…

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This Week In Accessibility: Kasper v. Ford

Is your job application process accessible to people with disabilities? If not, you may be in some serious legal jeopardy. More and more companies in a dizzying variety of industries and organization types are funneling job applications to an online…

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Interview Questions Accessibility Professionals should ask

How can you tell if your potential future employer is committed to improving things for people with disabilities or if they are just #Diversish. A couple of months back, I wrote an article listing questions and behaviors that I thought were important…

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Do your stock photo libraries have realistic scenes including people with disabilities?

Or are they #Diversish? Hint: It’s not just about the subject in the photo, it’s also about how the photos are staged If at least 10 % of your photos with people in them don’t have disabilities represented, you are clearly…

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Make People with Disabilities Part of your Accessibility Testing Program

Do you have an optimal accessibility testing program abilities mix? Let’s say you need surgery. You go to a surgeon in your insurance network. “Sure I can do this surgery,” the surgeon says. “How many times have you done this…

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Is there a bias against disability in your Unconscious Bias training?

Disabilities are largely ignored in most unconscious bias training. Here’s why that is important and how to fix it. What is Unconscious Bias? Unless you have been hiding under a rock, if you live in the US you have probably…

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This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga

In case you forgot what was going on (it’s been a while) here is the procedural history so far: 2015 — NAD files lawsuit for Harvard’s failure to provide close captioning 2016 — Court denied Harvard’s motion to stay / dismiss based on jurisdiction 2016 — NAD…

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