Global Awareness Accessibility Day 2020! This is the third year I'm having a special episode for this event. I started with panel discussions for the day - and was planning on keeping that up. However, technical issues limited our ability to co

E097 – Interview with Joe Devon – Part 2

Apr 30th, 2020 20m 6s

Joe Devon says the one thing people should remember about accessibility is that building great products is about listening to your user. And if you are not making your products accessible, you are not paying attention to your users.Thanks

Interview with Joe Devon - Part 1

Apr 23rd, 2020 26m 59s

Joe Devon tells us that lot of accessibility is knowing the culture and different communities that view it differently.Thanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show. Gatsby is a modern website framework that builds performance into eve

Interview with Devon Persing - Part 2

Apr 3rd, 2020 29m 59s

Devon Persing and I talk a little bit about burnout in the web accessibility industry.Thanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show. Gatsby is a modern website framework that builds performance into every website by leveraging the late

Interview with Devon Persing - Part 1

Mar 27th, 2020 28m 4s

Devon Persing tells us that the compliance model doesn't capture the whole picture of accessibility. And it feels like a separate thing from design/dev work.Thanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show. Gatsby is a modern website fram

Interview with Tony Coelho - Part 2

Mar 5th, 2020 23m 47s

Congressman Tony Coelho tells us that people with disabilities must have the right to fail. Without failure you can't learn from the mistake. Without failure there's no growth. Without a right to fail, your growth is stunted.Thanks to Gat

Interview with Tony Coelho - Part 1

Feb 27th, 2020 24m 26s

Congressman Tony Coelho talks about his life with a disability, his journey of working for the People, and how he introduced the ADA.Thanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show. Gatsby is a modern website framework that builds perfor

Interview with Emily Lewis - Part 1

Sep 7th, 2019

Emily states: "Hardest part of the job is coming up with solutions. It's one thing to identify what's wrong, it's entirely another thing to give clients an alternative solution that's accessible to start with but also reasonable for them to imp

Interview with Emily Lewis - Part 2

Aug 27th, 2019 29m 31s

Emily Lewis said: Accessibility is not about screen readers or keyboard navigation or code. It’s about people. And them being able to access information and resources, community… all of itThanks to Gatsby for being a sponsor of the show.

Interview with Amberley Romo - Part 2

Aug 20th, 2019 24m

About one thing everyone knows about accessibility... Amberley says: “I think everyone knows when something is not acceptable to them”Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a look at:Thei

Interview with Amberley Romo - Part 1

Aug 7th, 2019 32m 39s

Amberley defines web accessibility as "building for the web in ways that ensure it’s usable by everyone. There aren’t barriers to use for anyone. So, I would say it’s about digital equal access, kind of along the same lines as physical equal ac

Interview with Christopher Schmitt

Jul 9th, 2019 23m 44s

Christopher says that for someone who likes Design so much, he didn't realize how important good color contrast was, and how bad color contrast issues are.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you hav

Interview with Jessica Ivins - Part 2

Jun 22nd, 2019 22m 18s

Jessica suggests that accessibility is a competitive advantage. The more people can use your product, the more likely they are to spend money on it.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a loo

Interview with Jessica Ivins - Part 1

Jun 15th, 2019 25m 44s

Jessica and I ponder whether low-literacy could be considered a disability, and regardless of the answer, that factor needs to be taken into account when designing sites and content.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this

E083 – Interview with Stephanie Walter – Part 2

May 27th, 2019 17m 54s

Stephanie Walter says there’s a lot of things she thought everybody knew about accessibility that actually not a lot of people knew. So, she thinks in general people know that somewhere on the internet some people are blind.Thanks to Twil

Interview with Stephanie Walter - Part 1

May 24th, 2019 25m 58s

Stephanie Walter tells us that designers should provide a roadmap to their design for the developer, but in many projects, there just isn't time to do that.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you ha

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2018 Special

May 16th, 2019 30m 34s

To highlight Global Awareness Accessibility Day, I had a wonderful panel discussion with four people involved in accessibility: Courey Elliott, Dennis Lembrée, Shannon Finnegan, and Dan O’Mahony Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript fo

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2018 Special

May 16th, 2019 30m 34s

To highlight Global Awareness Accessibility Day, I had a wonderful panel discussion with four people involved in accessibility: Courey Elliott, Dennis Lembrée, Shannon Finnegan, and Dan O'MahonyThanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcri

Interview with Damien Senger - Part 2

May 7th, 2019 22m 56s

Damien tells us "Later does not exist in our industry. Don't push something without accessibility now. Because you will NOT go back and fix it later"Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a lo

Interview with Damien Senger - Part 1

Apr 29th, 2019 25m 37s

In which Damien Senger tells us "Universal design is the answer, more than accessibility. Because people are on a spectrum."Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a look at:Their blog: htt

E079 – Interview with Liz Jackson – Part 2

Apr 22nd, 2019

In which Liz Jackson tells us she wishes people viewed accessibility as an opportunity to engage, rather than a legal compliance thing.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a look at:Thei

Interview with Liz Jackson - Part 1

Apr 15th, 2019 25m 24s

Liz Jackson says it's not enough to fix accessibility, people with disabilities must be included. She says: "I think somebody thinks that if they just smooth something out and they make it usable that we won’t have feelings about it. But, we ar

Interview with Amy Carney - Part 2

Apr 8th, 2019 16m 15s

Amy Carney tells us accessibility is not just a checklist of standards but that we really are building experience for people and allowing them to open up opportunities.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make

Interview with Amy Carney - Part 1

Apr 1st, 2019 26m 10s

Amy Carney tells us that accessibility "comes down to a design perspective. We’re designing to include people, specifically people with disabilities. And that is based on enabling people with disabilities to access content and web applications

Interview with Alli Berry - Part 2

Mar 27th, 2019 20m 55s

Alli says that getting the right people in the same room at the start of a project is very difficult and can impede accessibility.Thanks to Twilio for sponsoring the transcript for this episode.Make sure you have a look at:Their blo