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Continuous manual accessibility testing

If continuous manual usability testing is a part of our workflow, why is manual accessibility testing only done at the end of the project?

Private Sector Accessibility: Canada

Exempting start-ups from accessibility regulations can have a drastic effect on end users.

Welfare and the cost of inaction

A newspaper article has the headline "New moves add $100,000 to ratepayer bill" with a picture of a woman on crutches next to a train.

The status quo focusses on the cost of action, not the cost of inaction.

What Web Accessibility is – and what it isn’t

In honour of all the people struggling to do basic things on the internet, let’s define what Web Accessibility is – and what it isn’t.

Flow-on benefits of considering accessibility

‘Oh, great’, I hear you say – ‘another bill’. Well ok, yes, if it’s from Telecom, it probably is another bill. But it’s what’s different about this month’s bill that got my attention. You see, I’d just returned home, after spending the best part of the day picnicing with friends in Dunedin’s botanical gardens (which […]

But blind people can’t do that

As a conscientious web developer, I build web pages that endeavour to be accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. Inevitably, this means that every now and then I have to pull a project manager, client, or designer up on inaccessible content or a poorly thought out design. So, I might say […]