Over the past couple of years, I’ve become very vocal about Accessibility and usually show my journey as starting with a conversation and a pint in a pub. In recent months I’ve started to accept that the true beginning for me began long before then, and I’ve simply been running from the truth.
Introduction – What lies ahead I have been talking about Accessibility for a while now, and often link this to DELIVERY rather than BUILD. In this post, “Power Apps, Accessibility, and WCAG”, I’m going to bring all this together. I’m also going to tie it in to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) around colour contrast. This post itself is going to be a fairly high-level overview of a Power Platform Solution I’ve written. The
What does day-to-day accessibility look like? Join Ashley Graham-Brown as they share about their life in “A dyslexic and dyspraxic’s guide to accessibility” (from Scottish Summit 2021)
It’s easy to talk about what a more inclusive workplace should be, but how do we go about creating such a place? At Scottish Summit 2021 Zoe Wilson delivered a great session on this very subject! Zoe is a passionate advocate for Accessibility in the workplace, and in everyday life. Having her speak about this topic provides us with great insight, practical application, and top tips. In the intro to the talk, Zoe shares a
For Microsoft, a core part of how accessibility is being managed throughout their DNA is by treating Accessibility as an actual project goal and requirement.
Watch Microsoft Accessibility Evangelist Hector Minto from Scottish Summit 2021 as he talks about Digital Inclusion and Accessibility as a Deliverable.
I started my self-learning journey into the world of Accessibility in the middle of 2020. If I’m completely honest I was very naive and did not understand what was behind that door. I soon came to realise that there is so much to learn, but so many teachers I can learn from. Accessibility is a word that can get thrown around like confetti (when it does get used anyway), to make things look good. The
“No-one wants to do it. It’s just not sexy”
“It’s too expensive”
“We don’t have the time to implement it”
A sad, familiar story but one that is not strictly true when it comes to implementing Accessibility.
When was the last time you were asked to make a project accessible? OK how accessible was the last event you attended, or app that you built, or blog post you read? Do you make your #Hashtags screen reader friendly?
Accessibility is something that people are aware of, yet also massively unaware of – and that goes for me especially.
So I’m going to do something about that…
A quick post from me about Mental Health in Lockdown. Here I share some of my struggles, and talk about where to find advice as well as where to chill out.
It’s no exaggeration to make the claim that I use the hashtag #community in around 90% of my social media posts. It’s also not an inaccurate statement to say that I’m the crazy guy who will run up to people and probably just shout “#COMMUNITY” at everyone and anyone… and all for very, very good reason.