Thoughts on crowd sourcing your accessibility feedback.

As I'm currently looking for my next role, I've had to do serious reflection on the work I actually want to do. My conclusion from this reflection is that teams generally don't hire for the work I really like, with some rare exceptions. This is why I almost always end up carving out my own space. Whenever I join a team, regardless of what the job...

I thought I'd make a list of things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self as a web developer who was just beginning to lean into web accessibility as part of her career path. For some context, I was a self taught web developer. I learned what I could from the internet. And my early career had me working more with back-end developers...

TLDR: At some point, we told design they couldn't sit with us anymore, and surprise! It backfired! Now, not only has the field and profession of web design suffered, but also, we build shitty websites. As I was writing this, I noticed how weird it felt using the term web designer. Isn't that weird? Also, I considered titling this "How the men...

A disclaimer to start this out: If you feel like I'm talking about you and this has you in your feelings, yes, I am. This weekend's discourse around accessibility validated my decisions to not carry out work there. I largely stopped posting on Twitter many months ago; minus the random check in, to reply to a peer's post, or just throw out a few...

No tool that asserts you can build production-grade UI code from their AI is innovative if it's not driven by accessibility. It's also not production-grade if the code it generates is inaccessible. That is the short and sweet of it. Not everyone is claiming that their AI tool is particularly innovative. But like most things involving AI right...