Authentic conversations so far...

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.

In Issue 55 of Access Denied, Gary thinks no progress on accessibility means the team is maintaining a consistent standard.

Our job is to write a story that resonates with others and helps them make better choices for accessibility.

Accessibility isn't about technical complexity or resource allocation. It's who you're willing to exclude.

Set specific and measurable goals for accessibility and tie them to existing metrics you already track.

BS meetings that monitor activity aren't the same as making progress. Turn check-ins into actual work sessions.

Treating accessibility as an afterthought costs you customers.

Building accessibility into your web product from day one saves money, time and creates better experiences for all users.

In Issue 54 of Access Denied, Gary thinks it's enough to run an accessibility plugin right before launch.

When web accessibility fails, every small frustration compounds into something much bigger.

Stop blaming accessibility for being a speed bump in your agile process.

Most product teams can make meaningful progress on accessibility debt in 6-12 months.

BS meetings always have the one manager who's all theory and zero accessibility practice.

The only way to learn accessibility is to do the work and build it in your development process.

The 5 hidden rules product owners use to avoid making their products accessible, and what they're really costing you.

In Issue 53 of Access Denied, Gary thinks that AI writes semantic code.

Writing semantic HTML is something you do automatically without really thinking about it.

If you're constantly putting accessibility in the backlog, you'll end up with mountain of technical debt.

Common questions that came up for the series on accessibility debt.