Originally posted 7 February 2021. Updated 27 May 2026. It all started when I built the HTML Exposed tool which removes CSS and JS from a webpage, leaving plain HTML. I built it as a sarcastic response to a developer who changed his website to require visitors to disable JavaScript before they could view the … Continue reading “The web is inherently accessible”
Category: Op Ed
What do you mean by disabled?
For much of the 20th century and into the 21st, society largely dictated what “disabled” meant. We were told we were disabled; that we were broken; that we didn’t matter because we weren’t whole. “Disabled” in this context is clearly used as an adjective to describe that state of a person: You’re disabled. Indeed, if … Continue reading “What do you mean by disabled?”
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021
The third Thursday in May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion people with disabilities/impairments. GAAD homepage Spring is all around here in Texas, with loads of beautiful blooms like these poppies—a flower … Continue reading “Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021”
My Accessibility Journey
This post follows my path to discovering a passion for accessibility and landing my dream job as an accessibility engineer. Starting out on rocky flats (2000-2007) It took me several years to become a decent web developer. Self-taught, I learned HTML through view source on webpages; I used code snippets from online tutorials; I built … Continue reading “My Accessibility Journey”
The web is inherently accessible (original)
This is the original version of this post. An updated version from 13 April 2022 is available. I originally created Accessible Web as a sarcastic reaction to a developer changing his website to require users to disable JavaScript to use it. The reactions on Twitter were hilarious! So many angry developers didn’t get the joke … Continue reading “The web is inherently accessible (original)”