Authentic conversations so far...

This is an archive of the email messages I sent to my daily mailing list since March 12th, 2024. Enjoy!

How to actively work to maintain and improve accessibility, looking at specific standards and following a clear process to address issues.

Focus on incremental improvements and defining success against your past self rather than the WCAG for a much more accessible product.

Curb cuts are no big deal for many people, but for someone in a wheelchair, they might as well be a wall.

What are your pet accessibility peeves?

When we design websites as if everyone has perfect abilities, we're basically telling a huge chunk of people they don't matter.

Accessibility demands that teams collectively develop the capacity to perceive, understand and respond to the diverse emotional experiences.

There are very few projects that have an impact on every human on the planet. Accessibility is one of them.

Bad at accessibility is about not having a solid process, a general lack of awareness and low confidence.

Why would you believe that you can ship an accessible website quickly and with no effort on your part?

If you're not monitoring emerging accessibility standards or experiment with new tools, you might have a technical agility problem.

I believe we're all on Santa's nice (semantic) list because we're all kind and want to do good. Happy holidays!

You can't schedule accessibility. You need to do it as part of your daily routine and it becomes business as usual.

In Issue 24 of Access Denied, Gary closes all accessibility tickets because accessibility is just a nice to have.

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