Accessibility requires deliberate practice
Jul 12th, 2024
Effective accessibility requires deliberate practice. The best at it understand what inclusive design requires.
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!
Jul 12th, 2024
Effective accessibility requires deliberate practice. The best at it understand what inclusive design requires.
Jul 11th, 2024
Signals coming from your customers are the most important indicators of accessibility you can have.
Jul 10th, 2024
The purpose of the Focus Finder game is to prioritise a list of ideas to just a few you'll explore further.
Jul 9th, 2024
Seemingly minor design choices have a significant impact on users with various invisible disabilities.
Jul 8th, 2024
Our design choices on the web have an often-overlooked impact on people with diverse cognitive abilities.
Jul 7th, 2024
This Sunday's joke features the accessibility police and image alternative texts.
Jul 6th, 2024
Take what you read, especially online, with a grain of salt.
Jul 5th, 2024
Meaningful change in accessibility is a journey with countless little baby steps. It's not a single huge step that we need to focus on.
Jul 4th, 2024
You don't have to build this long-term sustainable solution to every accessibility problem. Sometimes you just need to get it done.
Jul 3rd, 2024
Scoring 100 in the Accessibility section in Lighthouse doesn't mean people with disabilities can effectively use your website.
Reworking inaccessible features is often significantly more expensive and time-consuming than building accessibility in from the start.
Jul 1st, 2024
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance, or incompetence.
Jun 30th, 2024
Tomorrow is the magical land where with minimal effort you'll make all your accessibility worries go away.
Jun 29th, 2024
The more you know, the more you have to put aside when training others. It's more useful to start the process from where they are.
Jun 28th, 2024
Many teams treat web accessibility for people with disabilities as special. But accessibility isn't special. It's specialised work.
Jun 27th, 2024
If you're missing the right processes for people to rely on, even well-funded accessibility projects can fail.
Jun 26th, 2024
Just as there are no cheat codes and shortcuts in getting in shape, tackling web accessibility requires a step-by-step approach.
The number of new accessibility issues your latest release introduced is a critical metric in informing you if you are on the right track.
Jun 24th, 2024
The purpose of the Goal Rush game is to generate as many user goals as possible that you can later use in the workshop.
Jun 23rd, 2024
Instead of unstructured endless meetings, I advocate for workshops that have a clear process where we uncover accessibility issues together.
Jun 22nd, 2024
This week's 1% is that I've been consistently writing and publishing every day for over 100 days straight.
Jun 21st, 2024
Web accessibility is a large undertaking and takes time. We need to accept that large tasks take time and that the investment is worth it.
Jun 20th, 2024
Is there a better way to introduce web accessibility to product teams that doesn't involve dumping a laundry list of issues on them?
Jun 19th, 2024
There's a difference between not having and not wanting to have disabled users.
Jun 18th, 2024
Accessibility and responsive web design are two sides of the same coin. They're about adapting experiences to match the needs of the user.
Jun 17th, 2024
Accessibility is essential in product development. But you won't create a product that works all the time for everyone. And that's ok.
Jun 16th, 2024
The WCAG provides a clear way to look at accessibility. Its set of principles and criteria are available for all to understand.
Jun 15th, 2024
A little story about acceptance and commitment.
Jun 14th, 2024
Don't mistake motion for action. You can be on a hamster wheel and never move forward. Only action leads to accessibility improvements.
Jun 13th, 2024
It's easy to make promises that describe a distant future and then look at the list of short-term pressures you're already facing.
I send one short email every day for product leaders who want to kill accessibility rework before it slows delivery. Expect accessibility debt, better metrics, clearer ownership, product quality and decisions teams can use.