Authentic conversations so far...

Keep working on accessibility, give your efforts enough time and you're guaranteed to see results. Time plus consistency equals results.

Small decisions compound and that's how you build in accessibility.

In Issue 59 of Access Denied, Gary doesn't want to test a vendor's accessibility claim.

Voice control on websites helps a surprisingly wide range of people.

User personas need to include people with various disabilities.

Check all accessibility claims of external vendors and add remediation processes in your contracts.

Meetings with no action items tied to dates and persons responsible are a waste of time.

Smart people disagree on accessibility solutions even when they want the same outcomes.

Stop preaching moral obligations and show people why they should start caring about accessibility.

In Issue 58 of Access Denied, Gary wants to use an overlay because no one has sued them yet.

Sometimes doing right and being right aren't the same thing. Prioritise doing over being right if you want to change things.

Accessibility isn't for edge cases. 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability.

Use a 2-step process to balance fixing existing accessibility debt with preventing new debt from piling up.

"Just one more thing" at the end of an already long meeting is the clear sign of a BS meeting.

You need a villain's master plan, not a superhero's reactive fixes, to building inclusive products.

If your product isn't perfectly accessible, start with one of these fixes today.

In Issue 57 of Access Denied, Gary hates it that he has to consider other people.

Embrace necessary discomfort to create more accessible products.

Accessibility isn't optional or a future priority.

Meetings without a clear decision maker are a waste of time.

It's never too late to start integrating accessibility into your workflow.

Healthcare treats symptoms, WCAG treats compliance gaps. But the good stuff happens upstream.

Teams that invest in slowly building accessibility skills end up in a better place than those who try to fix everything at once.

In Issue 56 of Access Denied, Gary thinks being first is everything, even without an accessibility strategy.

Speed doesn't matter if you don't know where you're going.

Stop assuming young users don't need web accessibility.

Include accessibility into your existing acceptance criteria to build things right from the start without it feeling like extra work.

BS meetings where you try to educate everyone about everything in accessibility fail miserably.

Accessibility issues aren't side effects. They are what happens when we ignore knowingly problems.

Small compromises can exclude millions of users without anyone planning to.