Accessibility and Disability
My professional life is focused on making digital services work for disabled users. This means understanding the culture and nuance around disability, as well as the technical side of how some people interact with technology.
I've been a part of, and around, the disabled community and the disability rights space since I was a teenager, so my work often focuses on challenging underlying barriers, rather than solving problems technology-first.
Here, I share things I've written and made, both about technical accessibility topics I've encountered professionally, but also about interesting things about disability and the surrounding culture culture.
What's new
No, it's not "fully accessible"
When you call your product "fully accessible", I suspect that you don't understand accessibility.
Surprising observations from usability tests
My slides from #a11yTO conf in Toronto
Authentic disabled characters in adult animation
A TV show I didn't expect to enjoy might have one of the most authentic disabled characters ever.
Introducing "Disability on AmItheAsshole"
Identifying and sharing stories of disability-related assholery from the depths of Reddit.
Disabled People on Desert Island Discs
The BBC's 'Desert Island Discs' is a touchstone in British culture. How often does it center disabled voices?
Archives
All disability posts
- Authentic disabled characters in adult animation 31 July 2023
- Introducing "Disability on AmItheAsshole" 18 May 2023
- Disabled People on Desert Island Discs 20 April 2023
All accessibility posts
- Investigating a failure of axe-core's link-in-text-block rule 10 February 2025
- No, it's not "fully accessible" 26 November 2024
- Surprising observations from usability tests 4 October 2024
- Five accessibility bugs GitHub Copilot offers to create 2 April 2023
- The Optophone 20 March 2023
- How does the WCAG color contrast formula work? 9 March 2023
- Can you use AI for alt text? 20 February 2023