Accessibility | Inclusion | Belonging | DEI AF
Keyboard accessibility is critical for your users that depend on voice recognition, onscreen keyboards, screen readers, ergonomic accessories, and your power users that prefer to avoid grabbing the mouse for every task. Most people test to make sure every interactive element can receive focus via the tab key and that buttons and links work with […]
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Intuit’s Accessibility Champion program enables everyone to become a champion and a roadmap for people to become leaders. This was created to celebrate people making contributions towards accessibility. It highlights people via employee profile badges, congratulatory spotlights, and notifications to managers about their commitment. The program emphasizes customer empathy, disability etiquette, and accessible product design… Continue reading
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This is a great article by Trina Moore Pervall that helps you understand the role of unconscious bias within your product designs: Unconscious Biases That Get In The Way Of Inclusive Design When we think of biases and design, we often think of users’ biases. However, throughout the research and design processes, our unconscious biases… Continue reading
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This is a restored article from September 2022. Links may point to the Internet Archive if the resource is no longer available. The Opportunities for Ohians with Disabilities organization has created a comprehensive series of videos that explore workplace accommodations, disability etiquette, and best practices for returning to work. The OOD Resources playlist on Youtube.… Continue reading
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This is a follow up podcast interview with Authority Magazine about accessibility, inclusive design, and inclusion: Intuit’s Ted Drake On How Businesses Make Accommodations For People Who Have a Disability This is the original article: Disability Inclusion In The Workplace: Intuit’s Ted Drake On How Businesses Make Accommodations For Customers and Employees Who Have a Disability Continue reading
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What is prosopagnosia, aka Face Blindness? In this article, Brad Pitt talks about his inability to recognize faces and how people mistake this as aloofness and disrespect: Brad Pitt opens up about suffering from undiagnosed prosopagnosia, or ‘face blindness’. I have prosopagnosia. I have a terrible time remembering names and faces. I used to think… Continue reading
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The 8 Asians blog has expressed the joys and challenges of being Asian American in the San Francisco Bay Area for 20 years. This post celebrates a recent commercial from Procter and Gamble about growing up with a non-western name in the United States. “Everyone has a name — and from birth through a lifetime… Continue reading
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This post restored from the Wayback Machine. It was originally published on March 8, 2020. We’ve discovered the hard way that our products have incorrectly used the aria-owns attribute. With the recent Chrome updates, this has triggered the pages to break the customer experience with JAWS and NVDA. I created the following bookmarklet to highlight… Continue reading
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This post is based on a presentation I gave in 2019 for Intuit’s Accessibility Week in Bangalore, India: Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization. When we talk about building global products, we often throw around acronyms like G11n (Globalization), I18n (Internationalization), and A11y (Accessibility). Too often, these are treated as separate silos. But the truth is, if… Continue reading
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This post was restored from the Wayback Machine. It was originally published on September 20, 2019 There are a lot of times when you need to find out which item on a page has focus. This is especially tricky when controlling focus as you move in and out of modals and components. Here’s how you… Continue reading
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The problems with web permissions – W3C User consent and permissions working group Jo Franchetti developer advocate at Samsung @thisisjofrank A Crisis of Permissions Much of the value of the internet is based on user trust of the internet. As this trust is broken, the internet is devalued. The overload of permission requests is causing… Continue reading