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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!

Trying to change how your team thinks and behaves about accessibility at the same time is impossible.

Changing team behaviour around accessibility means building it into the process and holding the line.

Changing how your team thinks about accessibility is powerful, but slow to engineer.

Getting a team to take accessibility seriously means making a deliberate choice between changing how people think and changing what they do.

Your employer might not deserve your best work on accessibility, but the people trying to use what you build do.

Always have one accessibility thing in motion.

Bad ARIA doesn't make your site more accessible. It makes it more confusing.

Real accessibility work lives in the awkward conversations, the pushback and the decisions that create friction.

Most teams don't lack the time for accessibility, but rather a decision that makes it non-negotiable.

Shipping small, consistent improvements beats waiting until you get it perfect.

Most web accessibility problems are fixed at the wrong time, which is why they cost more.

There's a big difference between "not yet" and "never." And then there's the team that never had the accessibility conversation at all.

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