Principles of Great (Accessibility) Work
Thoughts and reflections on some principles that help create conditions for great accessibility work
Journal
Hand-me-down tools for school
Tools I've used in my tech life that help my son in school
Context and AI Collaboration
How I learned to better collaborate with AI.
Inclusive teaching: audio describing your own presentations
In order to be more inclusive as teachers, presenters, speakers, facilitators (and a long list of other things we do in life where we communicate), we need to develop the skill of audio describing our own presentations.
I finished reading a book! Ignore Everybody
Just finished reading Ignore Everybody from Hugh MacLeod. Here's my takeaways.
The ongoing evolution of 'Shift left'
The meaning of shift left has changed over time. That change is good, and better for long-term sustainability when it comes to accessibility.
Intentional Inclusion: Apple Fitness+
This is (at least in part) what intentional inclusion looks like.
Ignore Everybody
Passages that make me say YES!!! from Hugh MacLeod's book Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Timing is everything
In which we better understand what it means to be purposeful with respect to accessibility.
The Uncracked
I'm going to try something different for reading in 2021.
Deformity
Cleaning out the office and I found a piece of paper that is 47 years old.
Day 1 of Notion
I'm trying out Notion as an all-in-one planner and productivity app. Here's a very boring write up of Day 1. I actually wrote it in Notion and then exported as Markdown and here we are, publishing easily on my site.
What's your accessibility mantra and how has it changed?
Here's a little bit about how my perspective on accessibility has changed over time.
(re)learning CSS
I learned CSS a long time ago. It's time for an upgrade.
Zoom audio and video features I learned this month
I learned a few new tricks with Zoom over the past couple of weeks in our house, with everyone here under quarantine. They're pretty cool.
Remote workshop teaching reflections
I've been teaching a remote, hands-on workshop and here are my quick thoughts on how it has gone, and what I've learned.
Remote working secrets I'll never tell
Yes, there's lots of remote working tips and tricks out there, but this is the stuff nobody will ever tell you. I certainly didn't tell you these things.
Getting started with speaking gigs
Here's some ways you can start speaking.
How we made remote work
I ran a remote team for 7 years and here's some things we did that remote work feel right.
Learning Gatsby (and React and GraphQL)
Learning Gatsby means learning React and GraphQL, and I'm ok with that. Here's some things I've learned so far.
Two years on.
Thoughts and musings two years after we became part of Level Access.
Lessons learned from making just one drawer.
I worked up to building a pull out drawer in the cabinet under our kitchen island. Here's what I learned.
One fix a day: the power of momentum
I've been fixing one small thing in my house/life each day in 2020. Here's how it's going so far
Fear of Becoming Irrelevant
Taking FOBI into my own hands
A long streak ends
I had a 537 day streak of doing the wrong thing.
Life Tracking
Lessons and insights after tracking my time for 24 hrs a day for 6 weeks.
I wish I'd known
We didn't know, but he did, and he should've told us.
Change of Pace
What does a change of pace really mean when you're teaching a workshop?
How you should REALLY use bullet points in a presentation
Bullet points aren't about what you put on the slide.
Emotions & web accessibility
There's an emotional aspect to accessibility that makes it difficult to determine exactly how we should design for a particular persona.
How to ensure you pay more for web accessibility than you should
Accessibility doesn't have to cost a lot, but here are some sure-fire methods to ensure that you pay more than you need to.
Five Stages of Accessibility
Organizations grow over time. Their understanding of accessibility and their attitude towards it change too. Have you seen these five stages of accessibility where you work?