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Episode 184: Accessibility is not a “nice to have” – with Derek Featherstone


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Why do companies de-prioritize accessibility? Making a digital map accessible to the blind. Pros and cons of the straw test. Why simulating a disability is not the same as working with disabled people. Using Twitter threads to prototype book chapters. How diversity (including neurodiversity and diversity of ability) makes for a better product. Changing small habits in your life leads to changing big ones.

Links for this episode:

  • Derek Featherstone (@feather) | Twitter
  • Level Access - Digital Accessibility Software, Services, Training - Level Access
  • Extreme Design by Derek Featherstone—An Event Apart Video
  • Accessibility for Web Design
  • UX Foundations: Accessibility
  • Gucci blackface sweater: Gucci removes $890 "blackface" sweater, apologizes after receiving backlash - CBS News
  • Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (MS Word)
  • Transcript for Big Web Show Episode #184 with Derek Featherstone (Accessible PDF)
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