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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!

You can't have a perfectly accessible website, and maybe nor should you want it.

Tracking readability as a metric helps ensure that your content is clear, accessible and easy to understand for all users.

You're never blameless in web accessibility. Your job is to create products that work for all users.

Hard decisions, easy life. Easy decisions, hard life.

In accessibility, patience is more than a nice to have. It's a requirement if we want to change hearts and minds.

One day or day one? Just start with accessibility.

Inclusive Impact Jam is the workshop I create and facilitate for a product team to help them understand accessibility.

Using common language and tapping into emotions is a more effective way we can get people to care about accessibility.

I love all the talk about web accessibility, but it seems that not a whole lot of others listen.

One kind word can change someone's entire day and, in accessibility, this can be particularly powerful.

Accessibility is the technical debt that your team did not realize they had until they learned about accessibility.

The purpose of If I were you is to give everyone on the product team the chance to experience a different role in accessibility.

Just because no one complains about accessibility on your website doesn't mean it's accessible to all.

We have to open our minds to the reality that not everyone is like us and understand that accessibility needs vary greatly.

Stop doing the things that are holding you back from an accessible website.

There's often a significant gap between technical compliance and what users with disabilities actually experience on a website.

Saying yes in business relationships goes against common advice. Saying yes in life is the best idea to find opportunities.

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