Accessibility statement: Known issues
May 5th, 2026
How do you explain the known accessibility issues in an accessibility statement?
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!
May 5th, 2026
How do you explain the known accessibility issues in an accessibility statement?
May 4th, 2026
What do you do when someone reaches out on the email from the accessibility statement?
May 3rd, 2026
In Issue 96 of Access Denied, Gary blames someone else for the non-existent email address on the accessibility statement.
May 2nd, 2026
How much and how often is your website changing should tell you how often to update the accessibility statement.
May 1st, 2026
How do you write an accessibility statement so that people actually read it
Apr 30th, 2026
Is an accessibility statement required by law?
Apr 29th, 2026
What is an accessibility statement and who is it for?
Apr 28th, 2026
Common questions about accessibility statements.
Apr 27th, 2026
Most accessibility problems are invisible until you go looking.
Apr 26th, 2026
in Issue 95 of Access Denied, Gary only thinks of the people who completed the checkout.
Apr 25th, 2026
The absence of complaints isn't proof that everything's fine.
Apr 24th, 2026
aria-label is not a one-size-fixes-all accessibility solution.
Apr 23rd, 2026
Your users don't owe you anything.
Apr 22nd, 2026
I'm not here to fix your ignorance about web accessibility.
Apr 21st, 2026
I pitched accessibility like I was the expert saving the day and all it did was put people on the defensive.
Apr 20th, 2026
The mental overhead of not fixing accessibility usually outweighs the fixes themselves.
Apr 19th, 2026
In Issue 94 of Access Denied, Gary thinks accessibility will improve if you just monitor it.
Apr 18th, 2026
You don't need to fix your entire accessibility backlog, you just need one win.
Apr 17th, 2026
The accessibility metric you track is a statement about what you think accessibility is.
Apr 16th, 2026
An accessibility score feels like progress. It isn't.
Apr 15th, 2026
Simple questions to help you decide what accessibility issues to fix and when.
Apr 14th, 2026
Accessibility keeps ending up on your cut list.
Apr 13th, 2026
We cut accessibility to meet deadlines we invented.
Apr 12th, 2026
In Issue 93 of Access Denied, Gary thinks it's okay to add flour at the end when baking a cake.
Apr 11th, 2026
Accessibility is a modifier that changes how every feature is designed, built and tested.
Apr 10th, 2026
Accessibility automated tools help you catch issues early when they're easier to fix.
Apr 9th, 2026
Accessibility acceptance criteria turn accessibility from a vague goal into a built-in requirement.
Apr 8th, 2026
Accessibility annotations reduce translation errors between design and development.
Apr 7th, 2026
Three things you can do to shift accessibility left.
Apr 6th, 2026
A three-layer approach to making the accessibility case without falling back on tired business justifications.
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.