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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!

Many business conversations sound like innovation, but they are really about risk.

How to refuse accessibility work that delays the user fix without sounding like you are dismissing it.

Smaller scope helps you protect the user outcome and ship useful fixes faster.

Accessibility work gets sharper when you define the outcome, target date and what stays out of scope.

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.

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