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Trickle Down Accessibility – A proposal for CSUN 18

Matt May tweeted an observation in 2016 introducing Trickle-Down Accessibility and recognized prioritizing our blind customers could lead to less support for others. Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum and I will be discussing Trickle-Down Accessibility at the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on Wednesday, March 21 at 2:20 pm in Cortez Hill C, 3rd Floor, Seaport Tower. The […]

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  • Workplace accommodation and disability etiquette video series

    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


  • Authority Podcast: Accessibility, Inclusive Design, and Accommodations at Intuit

    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


  • Face Blindness – prosopagnosia

    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


  • Everyone has a name

    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


  • Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    Accessibility, Globalization, and Internationalization: Designing for a World Wide Web

    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


  • Notes from W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    Notes from W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    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


  • W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent

    This is a restored article from a workshop I attended in 2018. I still incorporate elements I learned from this day. Some links have been lost in time, these link to archived versions on Internet Archive. The problems with web permissions – W3C User consent and permissions working group Jo Franchetti developer advocate at Samsung Continue reading


  • Trickle Down Accessibility

    Ted Drake, Intuit Accessibility Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum, Intuit Accessibility CSUN 2018 Trickle-Down Accessibility – CSUN 2018 from Ted Drake Disclaimer This presentation is not about reducing your support for blind and low-vision. It’s about building better products by expanding your outreach. This topic could be considered controversial, but that’s not the intention. This is about expansion. Continue reading


  • Accessibility Keywords for Data Mining

    List of accessibility keywords How do you know what your customers with a disability are sharing with your company’s feedback forms and surveys? Is there an option for them to self-declare they have a disability? Probably not. The following list of keywords has been compiled from various sources and will help you data mine your Continue reading


  • Trickle Down Accessibility – A proposal for CSUN 18

    Matt May tweeted an observation in 2016 introducing Trickle-Down Accessibility and recognized prioritizing our blind customers could lead to less support for others. Sarah Margolis-Greenbaum and I will be discussing Trickle-Down Accessibility at the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on Wednesday, March 21 at 2:20 pm in Cortez Hill C, 3rd Floor, Seaport Tower. The Continue reading