I've been speaking on, and advocating for, digital accessibility since the early 2000s. It is my conviction that nothing is done until it's accessible, and we can never wait to add accessibility after the fact. The work to include everyone needs to be up-front and ongoing.
When you read the news that Mattel is launching a blind Barbie with a white cane, note that the doll was developed with organizations and people who are experts in, and themselves have, visual impairments. Mattel also organized play sessions for children with visual impairments as part of product development....
"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how...
An image of ChatGPT solving a captcha was spread far and wide recently. The most beautiful thing about the image is of course that it hadn't solved the Captcha. This made it a fantastic stepping stone for talking about the many illusions of technological advancement. 💡If anybody knows...
I see more and more people faking bold and italic text on LinkedIn, and other social media, using Unicode characters. This is detrimental to accessibility, findability as well as predictability. Here is an example that you may or may not see depending on your client for viewing this: * Example of...
Attempts to classify people into intelligence categories has been going on for many hundreds of years, but none have perhaps proven as prevalent as the intelligence quotient (IQ). The origins of IQ can be traced back to a 1905 test designed by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon to...
When humans adapt to technology they add obstacles to access content.
World Ethical Data Forum autoplays a video at the top of their page that can trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures
A terrible captcha solution making it difficult to vote for many EU citizens.
How a job posting communicates culture and values. Are you ready to join the elite?