Hint: Surprise ! The correct answer to “are you accessible” is never, ever supposed to be simply “yes” I despise the Museum of Ice Cream. Don’t get me wrong, I *love* ice cream. Anything with chocolate in it, for the win.…
Overlays are not the solution to your accessibility problem
In the long run they will hurt, not help your approach to people with disabilities Accessibility overlays are tools that detect and dynamically repair HTML accessibility issues in non-mobile environments. And what accessibility manager in their right mind WOULDN’T want…
2020 Disability / Accessibility Predictions
Eight important trends that will help you get ahead and be more inclusive with respect to disabilities in 2020 More focus on speech driven interfaces that don’t require perfect speech Speech interfaces (both input and output) were a huge trend…
Documenting Accessibility Decisions
The ability to focus and remember is a privilege, especially for people with disabilities. Which makes documenting accessibility decisions that much more important. Focus and memory are privileges, perhaps even more so, for people with disabilities, who are: more likely…
Scaling Accessibility
In an enterprise software world, accessibility isn’t always about testing a handful of simple websites with homogeneous data and predictable release cycles. Sometimes accessibility has to scale. A presentation based on the topic at the center of this article was submitted…
You don’t get a “pass” to discriminate against people with disabilities in an emergency
People with disabilities are the ones guaranteed to get disproportionately ****ed over in any type of emergency At 2 pm yesterday, I got the expected call from PG&E notifying me of an impending power outage at 8 pm. In their…
Accessibility Retrospectives
Reflect on your wins and identify things you wish had gone differently An agile retrospective (sometimes called a post-mortem) is a gathering of interested and involved parties at the end of a sprint to review the project’s events and learn…
Dark UI themes are new and cool — but are they accessible?
Dark mode is one of those new, hot design features that is generating a lot of “buzz”. Apple and Slack, for example, have been pushing dark themed pages hard lately. However, it appears that not much thought has been given…
Accessibility and Motion
How to design the delightful user experience you want for your sighted / non-motion sensitive users, without triggering distraction, nausea and migraines in the rest of us “Moderation in all things is the best policy.” – Roman comic dramatist Plautus…
ADA lawsuit costs are WAY more than just the settlement
When performing accessibility risk assessment, there are many costs you must include in your calculations in addition to plaintiff payouts Karl Groves wrote an amazing article this week on the ROI on Accessibility. This is a topic near and dear to my…