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In Issue 102 of Access Denied, Gary thinks building up the backlog is progress.

Bloated backlogs hurt your product.

Five questions to help you change how your team thinks about accessibility or how they behave.

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.

In Issue 101 of Access Denied, Gary talks about inclusion, but cares very little for people.

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

Here's a dead simple method for prioritising accessibility issues with no spreadsheet and no guesswork.

Always have one accessibility thing in motion.

Stop trying to fix all of it at once.

Accessibility is a battle against our own short-sightedness.

Speed gets noticed. Accessibility doesn't.

In Issue 100 of Access Denied, Gary thinks the easy issues are more important for the wrong reasons.

Fixing accessibility issues because they're easy isn't always progress.

Accessibility metrics that are quick to check and genuinely high impact.

Measuring web accessibility is easy. Measuring it right isn't.

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.

The goal isn't to have all the answers but to stay open enough to change.

In Issue 99 of Access Denied, Gary thinks a gut feeling is enough to test for accessibility.

Saying "I don't know" feels like failure, but in accessibility it might be the most honest thing you can say.

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

Nobody wants to be the person who blocks a Friday ship. That's who I am sometimes.

The worst part in working in web accessibility is being the last person in the room.

The best part in working in web accessibility is when nobody needs me.

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

In Issue 98 of Access Denied, Gary wants to prioritise a task force over fixing accessibility issues.

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