More on What Makes a Good Accessibility Designer Buckle up, accessibility brings complexity.

I wrote another post about what makes a good accessibility designer. This one packs in more detail about the big challenges.

davidakennedy.com/blog/more-on...

Welcome to Accessibility Weekly A weekly newsletter that helps you bring accessibility into your everyday work.

Obligatory happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day post with an included subscribe to Accessibility Weekly callout. Level up on accessibility for the other 51 weeks in the year too. 😅 a11yweekly.com

Eric, I thought you were in design, not marketing? 😅

Be a Good Link Send the right message.

I wrote about what makes a good link. davidakennedy.com/blog/be-a-go...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

What Makes a Good Accessibility Designer? Embrace those soft skills.

I wrote a bit about what makes a good designer and a good accessibility designer. Embrace those soft skills. davidakennedy.com/blog/what-ma...

Beautiful focus outlines · Medienbäcker Thomas Günther Baker’s son turned web developer, kneading pixels and code for 15+ years. I help you bake your ideas into websites 🥨.

"When we treat focus outlines as essential design elements rather than afterthoughts, we create interfaces that are both beautiful and inclusive." #a11y medienbaecker.com/articles/foc...

My secret to checking the accessibility maturity of a design system? Check its focus styles. Good styles can be an indication that the team understands the nuances of good, inclusive design. If focus styles have gaps, it usually a sign of more gaps elsewhere.

Easy Websites Someone, please ditch the heavy interfaces.

I wrote some thoughts down about how to make website creation easier. davidakennedy.com/blog/easy-we...

Today I described the “soft no” of organizations when you ask for better accessibility priorities.

It’s very rare that management says they don’t care about accessibility, it’s very common that they don’t actually find or prioritize it.

It’s a soft no.

Winging It Cross those bridges.

I wrote about winging it. Don’t be afraid to, we all do it. davidakennedy.com/blog/winging...

New post: Accessibility is leadership - davidakennedy.com/blog/accessi... Where I talk about one of the reasons why accessibility work is so hard.

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks. Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

Hiiiiiii, hows it going over here. Long time no skeet. Just popping in to post an article I wrote about the current state of web design and why it's kind of bad! heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10...

This disabled freelance web developer is looking for work! 👋🏻

linkedin.com/in/ashleemboyer

Specialties: accessibility, design systems, React, TypeScript, Next, Node

Also skilled at: design & code review, testing, technical writing, requirements gathering, estimation

I'm thinking of redesigning my site and putting it in a CMS again instead of finishing the three draft blog posts I have going. Send help.