If I had a nickel for every time I couldn’t figure out whether there would be chicken on my chicken caesar salad, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot — but it’s funny that it’s happened twice. I do a lot of food shopping online. It always comes with mixed results because almost … Continue reading “Does my Chicken Caesar Salad come with chicken?”

I’m going to write about “bad” design. When I write about “bad” design, I want you all to understand that a design that’s bad for me might be a perfectly good design for a different user. It might even be the ideal design. It’s about the context. For example, I recently applied to speak at … Continue reading ““Bad” design and design decisions”

An accessibility specialist named Michelle P. posted this on one of the Slack boards I use. She gave me permission to repost it. Person to vendor: How close are you to automating screen reader testing? Me, on the call: There’s no such thing, screen reader testing and automated testing don’t work like that. Person, to … Continue reading “How close are they? So so far away.”