Sep 28th, 2024
The only way to learn about accessibility is to get your hands dirty and do the work.
This is an archive of the email messages I sent to my daily mailing list since March 12th, 2024. Enjoy!
Sep 28th, 2024
The only way to learn about accessibility is to get your hands dirty and do the work.
Sep 27th, 2024
You'll never get a breather to fix your inaccessible website so take the see-it-fix-it approach.
Sep 26th, 2024
Tracking the quality of your page titles ensures better navigation, understanding and accessibility across your site.
Sep 25th, 2024
If you want to know if you're in a workshop or a meeting, these are the questions to ask yourself.
Sep 24th, 2024
We have the freedom to create and innovate, but we need to remember that this should include everyone.
Sep 23rd, 2024
What's something that if you knew and understood, it would turn the tables and empower you to ship an accessible website?
Sep 22nd, 2024
In Issue 11 of Access Denied, Gary schedules a meeting to talk about other meetings.
Sep 21st, 2024
A short story about electrical wires to illustrate the importance of accessibility in web design.
Sep 20th, 2024
Improving accessibility takes effort. It's not easy and you won't get it done in one sprint. It carries risk.
Sep 19th, 2024
Link text quality measures how descriptive and meaningful the text of your hyperlinks is.
Sep 18th, 2024
You could be a pawn in a meeting or a hero in a workshop. It's your choice.
Sep 17th, 2024
Accessibility audits are useful in hindsight. They can point you to problems you've created, but they won't help you prevent new ones.
Sep 16th, 2024
Uncertainty is catalyst for learning and innovation in accessibility.
Sep 15th, 2024
Issue 11 of Access Denied has Gary coming up with concepts of a plan to implement accessibility.
Sep 14th, 2024
Admitting mistakes early takes guts, but it's the best course of action if you want to strengthen your relationships and build trust.
Sep 13th, 2024
You can't have a perfectly accessible website, and maybe nor should you want it.
Sep 12th, 2024
Tracking readability as a metric helps ensure that your content is clear, accessible and easy to understand for all users.
Sep 11th, 2024
I use workshops to solve problems or make decisions faster and more effectively than in regular meetings.
Sep 10th, 2024
You're never blameless in web accessibility. Your job is to create products that work for all users.
Sep 9th, 2024
Hard decisions, easy life. Easy decisions, hard life.
Sep 8th, 2024
Issue 10 of Access Denied has Gary setting up what he thinks is continuous accessibility testing.
Sep 7th, 2024
In accessibility, patience is more than a nice to have. It's a requirement if we want to change hearts and minds.
Sep 6th, 2024
One day or day one? Just start with accessibility.
The successful task completion rate for users with disabilities tells you how well your product supports users in achieving their goals.
Sep 4th, 2024
Inclusive Impact Jam is the workshop I create and facilitate for a product team to help them understand accessibility.
Sep 3rd, 2024
Using common language and tapping into emotions is a more effective way we can get people to care about accessibility.
Sep 2nd, 2024
I love all the talk about web accessibility, but it seems that not a whole lot of others listen.
Issue 9 of Access Denied has Gary ignoring accessibility failures and only looking at successes.
Aug 31st, 2024
One kind word can change someone's entire day and, in accessibility, this can be particularly powerful.
Aug 30th, 2024
Accessibility is the technical debt that your team did not realize they had until they learned about accessibility.
I send out short emails like these every day to help you gain a fresh perspective on accessibility and understand it without the jargon, so you can build more robust products that everyone can use, including people with disabilities.