Book Recommendation: “Mismatch” by Kat Holmes

One of the people we interviewed for Content for Everyone, Heather Neff, suggested Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes to me. And now I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in design—regardless of if you’re a designer or not—and/or is...

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is just a few days away on Thursday, May 18. The mission of is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one million people with disabilities/impairments. GAAD started...

Social Media Alt Text Revealed

Having meaningful alternative text for images is an important aspect of accessible content. Screen readers use alternative text to present information about an image that someone may not see. Alternative text also appears on screen when an image doesn’t load, and when...

When A Picture Isn’t Worth a Thousand Words

I’ve talked a lot this past week in both my work with UsableNet and talking with some creatives about using images of text. I wrote about this a few weeks ago as part of my “5 Tips for Accessible Newsletters” post, but the topic deserves its own post. The fact is that...