Writing

If you’ve been watching the news or your local roads, you’ve probably been seeing all sorts of electric vehicles out and about town. There’s the iconic Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, retro futuristic vehicles from Hyundai like Ionic 5 and 6, the city friendly Chevy Bolt (my personal favorite). But I got an electric vehicle recently that might not be what you think of first when you hear the term EV - a cargo e-bike. And for lots of folks living in urban or suburban areas, I want to show you how you could use it to replace most of your car trips, and save a boat-load of money.

If you’ve worked in software development or design for a while, you have very likely heard about the value of user testing, but you may not have had the opportunity to take advantage of user testing much in your work yet. I want to show you some user testing we did for DecarbMyState.com, and how it helped make sure our climate site was both easy to use but also left our users with the positive emotional impact we were striving for.

At this point, I think everyone knows about climate change, and discussions have moved from debating the impacts to what we should be doing to prevent it. Big companies love to ask you to take a look at your carbon footprint, while some activists counter that your individual impact is negligible compared to the emissions of large companies. I want to show you that it’s a bit of both.

I often think we don’t realize, day to day, how close we are to the homeless adults and children we might see on the street. We also might not realize that we actually know people (whether partners, close friends, coworkers, or acquaintances) who have been homeless. For you, maybe I am that person, because for around four years when I was a teenager, I was homeless.

Accessibility isn’t just for websites - it’s critical for all of your content. Let’s walk through some of the most fundamental accessibility principles and how they apply to content like social media posts or articles!

Recently, I was ordering some delivery from Chipotle, and out of curiosity I tried to tab through the menu, only to discover that I couldn’t! Here’s some of the issues that make the Chipotle ordering experience inaccessible, and how you can prevent them in your own project.

Forms are one of the biggest ways users interact with websites, and as part of creating an accessible website, we need to know how to make accessible forms. In this post I’ll show you the fundamentals of how to make a basic form accessible.

These days, accessibility is one of my biggest passions and something that I am proud to know a lot about, but it wasn’t always this way. This is how I went about fixing my old, inaccessible, personal site and making it fully accessible and WCAG compliant.

Whether you are just starting out learning about web accessibility or you are an experienced developer well aware of accessibility, I want to help. This post will show you some of the tools that I have been using for the past few years to find and fix accessibility issues.

In 2020, I want to start writing more, so I am fully refreshing my website’s writing with a new focus. This year, I want to help push accessibility forward everywhere on the web, so expect some posts about tools you can use to audit a website’s accessibility, case studies about some accessible projects I have done, and how you can make your websites accessible.