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How to handle difficult behaviours during effective accessibility workshops.

Curb cuts are no big deal for many people, but for someone in a wheelchair, they might as well be a wall.

What are your pet accessibility peeves?

In Issue 27 of Access Denied, Gary thinks accessibility is just about adding a CSS file to the website.

You can’t make a product that’s usable by everyone if you only consider the needs of some.

When we design websites as if everyone has perfect abilities, we're basically telling a huge chunk of people they don't matter.

Accessibility demands that teams collectively develop the capacity to perceive, understand and respond to the diverse emotional experiences.

Happy New Year, 2025!

There are very few projects that have an impact on every human on the planet. Accessibility is one of them.

Bad at accessibility is about not having a solid process, a general lack of awareness and low confidence.

In Issue 26 of Access Denied, Gary looks back at what he's accomplished for accessibility during the past year.

Web accessibility will be there waiting for you after the holidays. For now, just breathe.

Why would you believe that you can ship an accessible website quickly and with no effort on your part?

If you're not monitoring emerging accessibility standards or experiment with new tools, you might have a technical agility problem.

Wrap-up for timeline and strucutre when running effective accessibility workshops.

I believe we're all on Santa's nice (semantic) list because we're all kind and want to do good. Happy holidays!

You can't schedule accessibility. You need to do it as part of your daily routine and it becomes business as usual.

In Issue 25 of Access Denied, Gary thinks the holidays is a good opportunity to ignore accessibility.

I'd wish for people to fundamentally understand that accessibility isn't about compliance. It's about the people around you.

An accessibility audit is the roadmap, not the solution.

If you're struggling to identify genuine collaboration across teams, you might have a cross-functional problem.

An effective accessibility workshop should always have at least one follow up session to evaluate the action plan.

The only way to define success is against your past self.

The most effective way to help someone improve is to meet them where they are not where you are.

In Issue 24 of Access Denied, Gary closes all accessibility tickets because accessibility is just a nice to have.

Trust is the oxygen in accessibility. Let your team make mistakes and learn from them. Accessibility isn't about getting everything perfect.

Some things are accessibility problems, but not all are problems you need to fix right away.

What is team trust in web accessibility and why is it important as a metric?

The last step in an effective accessibility workshop is to build an action plan to solve the problem.

You're unlikely to fix an inaccessible product in a sprint. It's better to be consistent.