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Daily emails so far...

This is an archive of the short emails I've sent since March 12th, 2024 about accessibility rework, product quality and the messy bits of delivery. Enjoy!

A quick way to prioritise accessibility without feeling overwhelmed using the three ones. One day, one month, one year.

When you face challenges that seem daunting, remember you are not alone and your efforts are part of something bigger.

When you create accessibility plans in isolation, you miss out on valuable insights from your developers, designers and testers.

Automated testing results is an accessibility metric that can give you early warnings and help you prioritise fixes.

You don't want to be accidentally accessible. When you don't plan for accessibility, it's easy to break it when you update your website.

Every day that passes without implementing accessibility is a day where you're shutting out potential users from engaging with your content.

In Issue 14 of Access Denied, Gary wants to close a ticket without fixing it because it will go away in a year by itself.

Don't sweating the small accessibility stuff and build a positive working relationship with the product team.

A product is never finished. Plan on things constantly changing and you having to fix things as you develop.

If you want to ship an accessible website, use this don't forget to list to check it before launch.

How can we shift from unproductive criticism to collaborative problem-solving in web accessibility?

You'll never get a breather to fix your inaccessible website so take the see-it-fix-it approach.

Tracking the quality of your page titles ensures better navigation, understanding and accessibility across your site.

We have the freedom to create and innovate, but we need to remember that this should include everyone.

What's something that if you knew and understood, it would turn the tables and empower you to ship an accessible website?

Improving accessibility takes effort. It's not easy and you won't get it done in one sprint. It carries risk.

Link text quality measures how descriptive and meaningful the text of your hyperlinks is.

Accessibility audits are useful in hindsight. They can point you to problems you've created, but they won't help you prevent new ones.

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