Over the course of my career I’ve seen a lot of excellent accessibility presentations and learned a lot. That’s because I worked in the accessibility space and went to specialist conferences. Web development conferences also have accessibility talks and their number is rising. But often these don’t go past the 101 stage or repeat things […]

The other day, I mulled over the problem of bad user experience resulting in more usage of products. Half your job as a product manager is not to get excited about rising usage numbers caused by bad UX. Often delivering a great experience means less usage - people get what they came for quickly. Tough […]

A few days ago I posted a graph I found some time ago that jokingly explained the benefits of subtitles in movies and tweeted about it. Good #a11y features are beneficial for lots of people. pic.twitter.com/2RMnTzseey— Chris Heilmann (@codepo8) June 28, 2021 The tweet went wild and so far has 35 answers, 290 retweets, 1,500 […]

Last week my former colleague Si Jobling interviewed me for his Make life work podcast about working from home, in different time zones and how to optimise your workflow. This also tied in nicely with Tools and Tips to Optimize Your Workflow as a Developer class and I shared how this one got prepared and […]

I got a cold email asking me to write a blog post about “Seven things you can’t do in React” for exposure on a “leading technology blog”. I sent them my proposal, wish me luck… 1. Boil the perfect egg 2. Connect to your inner child 3. Reach that itchy part on your back 4. […]