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Accessibility Conformance Reports: Setting Expectations

Jan 19 · 4 min read · AcronymDefinition ACRAccessibility Conformance Report VPAT®Voluntary Product Accessibility Template An Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR), more commonly referred to as a VPAT® (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template), is a report that’s t...

The PMs Role in Preventing Digital Ableism

Nov 29, 2025 · 6 min read · Ever hear of a "disappointment room"? If you watched Goonies, you saw one. It was the dark and damp, dungeon-looking room where Chunk met Sloth for the first time. Movies aside, disappointment rooms were places where families would hide their relativ...

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Icon Buttons Need Tooltip Labels

Nov 14, 2025 · 5 min read · It’s estimated that modern-day humans have been using images to communicate for at least 51,000 years. Our brains are wired to perceive and recognize shapes as forms of communication. Visual stimuli are processed through our visual cortex, routed to ...

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Aria-labels and Privacy: A Word of Caution

Nov 10, 2025 · 3 min read · Using aria-labels can expose sensitive data to tracking software. While this applies to interactive controls in general, for this specific scenario, I’m using buttons and their labels. Let’s say in your app, you have a series of buttons with the same...

I Broke the Disabled Button

Apr 24, 2025 · 2 min read · How do you break a disabled button, Gaines? Easy! This happened many years ago; I was fixing accessibility issues with a form and testing them using VoiceOver. As I tabbed through the UI, I eventually made my way to the disabled Submit button at the ...