Why you should create accessible personas In order to create a great product, you need to understand your users. This is where personas come in. Personas are fictional representations of your target audience that help you design for their needs. They should be based on real data. Accessible personas are ones that have taken into account…

In 1997 Ronald Mace led a team of architects, product designers, engineers, and researchers at North Carolina State University to come up with a set of principles to better design environments and products. …

As I learned more about accessibility, I came across many new words that I wasn’t familiar with. Here are some terms I think are important to know. Accessibility The properties of a digital or physical environment which make it usable and meaningful to as many people as possible. A11y Acronym for accessibility…

Stop googling and bookmark these places today. One of my goals for this exercise is to have a place where for all my a11y resources to live. What can be so daunting about learning anything new is knowing even where to begin. …

Inspired by Amy’s 100-day journey, I’m carving out 30 days to deepen my web accessibility knowledge. By the end of these 30 days, I hope to broaden my design process to include accessibility at every stage, confidence to hold meaningful conversations with fellow designers, developers, and stakeholders, and an arsenal of resources that I can refer back to in the future. I’m not going to be perfect, but I’m here to learn and learning is messy business. So let's get started.