Bookmarks

Casting a wide net and collecting links that made me think, are worth sharing, or provide a good reference point on future projects.

  1. Disability Web Access: I've Already Clicked Away

    "If a website is too much of an ordeal or time-consuming, then I've already clicked away." said Mike Adams who was born with a physical disability.

    • An estimated £11.8bn ($13 billion USD) is lost every year as the result of "click-away" costs because sites aren't accessible.
    • Mr. Adams is promoting Purple Tuesday, a day promoting accessibility awareness to businesses in the UK.

  2. What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me

    Accessibility isn’t easy. And often times it is downright hard. But that comes with the territory. Designing for humans is hard. And accessibility is, at the end of the day, all about and all for humans.

  3. The Internet is for Everyone, Right? Not With a Screen Reader.

    "Since the 1990s, the popular narrative of the internet has been one of progress: More people are online than ever and the web is increasingly open. But today, the internet is far from fully accessible. By some measures, it’s gotten even worse."

  4. Why I Care About Web Accessibility

    "You don’t need to have a personal connection to accessibility to care about it as deeply, of course. You just need to be open to the world around you."