Authentic conversations so far...

In Issue 69 of Access Denied, Gary gives a presentation on accessibility, but knows nothing about it.

Instead of convincing people accessibility matters, build it first and make them work to remove it.

Stop thinking accessibility is just about blind people and screenreaders.

You don't need everyone to be an accessibility expert. You need everyone to know their part.

Automated tests catch the obvious stuff. Here are 5 things they can catch that actually matter to people.

Accessibility is like starting a fire. It works better when you don't overwhelm everyone with massive changes.

Accessibility specialists often end up as "complexity managers," whose job is to make sense of unnecessarily complicated systems.

In issue 68 of Access Denied, Gary values accessibility but can't find time to prioritise it.

It doesn't matter why you make your site accessible as long as it gets done.

Companies mandate yearly training, everyone gets a certificate, but nothing changes. True for security, GDPR or accessibility.

Who's actually responsible for accessibility in the team?

Automated tests catch the obvious stuff. Here are 5 things they miss that actually break products for people.

Ignoring accessibility means building on a shaky foundation.

What is the best case and the worst case scenario when you don't fix your accessibility problems?

In Issue 67 of Access Denied, Gary thinks early adopters of a product is a representative sample.

Make things simpler to understand and problems can become easier to fix.

We made dropdowns unnecessarily complex.

Accessibility starts with people.

Do you absolutely need more than what automated testing gives you?

You don't need permission to work on accessibility because the majority of accessibility improvements are about how you build the stuff.

Get org-level support for accessibility without turning your practical wins into empty strategy documents.

In Issue 66 of Access Denied, Gary thinks having an accessibility strategy solves everything.

Accessibility is a system-level problem, but system-level solutions without unit-level action are useless.

Stop making accessibility harder than it needs to be. Use semantic HTML elements and get accessibility built in instead of fighting ARIA.

10 tips for a sustainable accessibility strategy, from focusing on people to automated tools, feedback loops and the impact of your choices.

Lab data tells you what's broken. Field data tells you if users can actually use your site.

Every decision in product development is an accessibility decision. We just don't always realise it.

Shift from "accessibility as compliance checkbox" to "accessibility as following natural user behaviour."

In Issue 65 of Access Denied, Gary thinks just adding any alt text to images solves accessibility.

Simple accessibility hacks rarely fix long-term use experience and process problems.