Stairs make the building inaccessible, not the wheelchair.
I had a great lunch with Dylan on Friday and he tweeted afterward: “UX and accessibility both have empathy as a core value. So why don’t UX and #a11y work together more?” Empathy is “the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.” Yet many designers and developers whoContinue reading Empathy
For the last week, I’ve been assimilating the ideas that I gleaned from the mind melds at CSUN. I asked as many people as I could, “How do you do your work?” I am often in a state of panic with my work, that I’m not working fast enough. Intellectually, I know that to move fromContinue reading Divine Discontent
I’ve been attending CSUN this week, the International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference. It’s the 17th or so time that I’ve attended the conference. It’s Friday and I’ve been here since Tuesday. I may finally understand how to do a conference in a way that works for me–as an introvert and as a womanContinue reading I am
In a world of 30-second super bowl ads and 140-character tweets, how do you catch someone’s attention? When you get it, how do you communicate about something as complex as web accessibility? In this session we’ll talk about the issues we face helping large corporations make their web properties accessible. We’ll talk about tactics thatContinue reading CSUN 2012 preview: Accessibility is the New Black: Digital Inclusion as the Next Big Thing
On 12 April 2010 I had the pleasure of presenting the afternoon keynote at MinneWebCon. I was impressed with the community–so vibrant and aware of standards! It was a fun day full of wonderful presentations and conversations. It’s a very special conference, well-organized with high caliber presentations. I highly recommend attending next year! Here areContinue reading MinneWebCon
(I performed this 24 March 2010 at the CSUN tweetup. Captioned video should be available in the future.) An Ode to Twitter A non-structured, non-lyrical ode to twitter… 140 characters Listen! Hear. See. Feel. PERCEIVE. Connection. 1,000s of people (or more?) talking about #accessibility. # a 1 1 y Do you say, “ally?” We’re talkingContinue reading An Ode to Twitter
The video from my IgniteSeattle presentation is live. Unfortunately, it is not yet captioned or transcribed. I’ll make sure both of these are available soon. Thanks to Randy for the quick turn-around on the captions and to castingwords.com for the transcript!
I was so moved by The Girl Effect (video). I wish everyone would watch it. Here’s a transcript for those unable to view it. Note there is no speech during the video only music. The following words display briefly on the screen one or a few at a time. Where the words interact to createContinue reading The Girl Effect
61 years ago today the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (link to full text). The Human Rights Action Center produced the following beautiful video to summarize the rights. Since the video does not have an audio component, the content is not accessible to some peopleContinue reading The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On 23 September, I spoke with John Moe and Darren Burton about technology and disability on Minnesota Public Radio (transcript not yet available). I really enjoyed our discussion and was happy that we talked about challenging people’s assumptions. If you can, give it a listen. Otherwise, watch my blog for a transcript or link toContinue reading Minnesota Public Radio