I hate backlogs
Jun 13th, 2026
Bloated backlogs hurt your product.
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!
Jun 13th, 2026
Bloated backlogs hurt your product.
Five questions to help you change how your team thinks about accessibility or how they behave.
Jun 11th, 2026
Trying to change how your team thinks and behaves about accessibility at the same time is impossible.
Jun 10th, 2026
Changing team behaviour around accessibility means building it into the process and holding the line.
Jun 9th, 2026
Changing how your team thinks about accessibility is powerful, but slow to engineer.
Jun 8th, 2026
Getting a team to take accessibility seriously means making a deliberate choice between changing how people think and changing what they do.
Jun 7th, 2026
In Issue 101 of Access Denied, Gary talks about inclusion, but cares very little for people.
Jun 6th, 2026
Your employer might not deserve your best work on accessibility, but the people trying to use what you build do.
Jun 5th, 2026
Here's a dead simple method for prioritising accessibility issues with no spreadsheet and no guesswork.
Jun 4th, 2026
Always have one accessibility thing in motion.
Jun 3rd, 2026
Stop trying to fix all of it at once.
Jun 2nd, 2026
Accessibility is a battle against our own short-sightedness.
Jun 1st, 2026
Speed gets noticed. Accessibility doesn't.
May 31st, 2026
In Issue 100 of Access Denied, Gary thinks the easy issues are more important for the wrong reasons.
May 30th, 2026
Fixing accessibility issues because they're easy isn't always progress.
May 29th, 2026
Accessibility metrics that are quick to check and genuinely high impact.
May 28th, 2026
Measuring web accessibility is easy. Measuring it right isn't.
May 27th, 2026
Bad ARIA doesn't make your site more accessible. It makes it more confusing.
May 26th, 2026
Real accessibility work lives in the awkward conversations, the pushback and the decisions that create friction.
May 25th, 2026
The goal isn't to have all the answers but to stay open enough to change.
May 24th, 2026
In Issue 99 of Access Denied, Gary thinks a gut feeling is enough to test for accessibility.
May 23rd, 2026
Saying "I don't know" feels like failure, but in accessibility it might be the most honest thing you can say.
May 22nd, 2026
Most teams don't lack the time for accessibility, but rather a decision that makes it non-negotiable.
May 21st, 2026
Nobody wants to be the person who blocks a Friday ship. That's who I am sometimes.
May 20th, 2026
The worst part in working in web accessibility is being the last person in the room.
May 19th, 2026
The best part in working in web accessibility is when nobody needs me.
May 18th, 2026
Shipping small, consistent improvements beats waiting until you get it perfect.
May 17th, 2026
In Issue 98 of Access Denied, Gary wants to prioritise a task force over fixing accessibility issues.
May 16th, 2026
Most web accessibility problems are fixed at the wrong time, which is why they cost more.
May 15th, 2026
There's a big difference between "not yet" and "never." And then there's the team that never had the accessibility conversation at all.
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.