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Here's an easy accessibility tip. A lot of people including accessibility professionals don't think about this. This one change makes a big difference in readability. [Start video transcript] Howdy, Meryl here with an accessibility tip. This one change makes a big difference. Even a11y (short for accessibility) pros don’t do this. Use left alignment instead of center. It greatly improves readability. The starting point of each line is easier to find and scan. [End transcript] When the starting point of each line changes, the eyes work harder to find the next line. It disrupts the scanning process. This applies to everything: Headings, bulleted lists (yes, I've seen centered bulleted lists), and images with text. Of course, there are always exceptions. I always say there are no absolutes in disability inclusion and accessibility. The image shows the entire transcript. The left side shows the centered-aligned text. The right side shows the left-aligned text. Thank you for being an accessibility ally. Which one do you prefer? Why? 🔔 Tap the silent profile bell to catch the next post 👉 Follow #MerylMots for past posts ✉️ Want to make progress with disability inclusion and accessibility? Contact me. #Captioned #Video #Accessibility

Here's an easy accessibility tip. A lot of people including accessibility professionals don't think about this. This one change makes a big difference in readability. [Start video transcript] Howdy, Meryl here with an accessibility tip. This one change makes a big difference. Even a11y (short for accessibility) pros don’t do this. Use left alignment instead of center. It greatly improves readability. The starting point of each line is easier to find and scan. [End transcript] When the starting point of each line changes, the eyes work harder to find the next line. It disrupts the scanning process. This applies to everything: Headings, bulleted lists (yes, I've seen centered bulleted lists), and images with text. Of course, there are always exceptions. I always say there are no absolutes in disability inclusion and accessibility. The image shows the entire transcript. The left side shows the centered-aligned text. The right side shows the left-aligned text. Thank you for being an accessibility ally. Which one do you prefer? Why? 🔔 Tap the silent profile bell to catch the next post 👉 Follow #MerylMots for past posts ✉️ Want to make progress with disability inclusion and accessibility? Contact me. #Captioned #Video #Accessibility

Here's an easy accessibility tip. A lot of people including accessibility professionals don't think about this. This one change makes a big difference in readability. [Start video transcript] Howdy, Meryl here with an accessibility tip. This one change makes a big difference. Even a11y (short for accessibility) pros don’t do this. Use left alignment instead of center. It greatly improves readability. The starting point of each line is easier to find and scan. [End transcript] When the starting point of each line changes, the eyes work harder to find the next line. It disrupts the scanning process. This applies to everything: Headings, bulleted lists (yes, I've seen centered bulleted lists), and images with text. Of course, there are always exceptions. I always say there are no absolutes in disability inclusion and accessibility. The image shows the entire transcript. The left side shows the centered-aligned text. The right side shows the left-aligned text. Thank you for being an accessibility ally. Which one do you prefer? Why? 🔔 Tap the silent profile bell to catch the next post 👉 Follow #MerylMots for past posts ✉️ Want to make progress with disability inclusion and accessibility? Contact me. #Captioned #Video #Accessibility

Here's an easy accessibility tip. A lot of people including accessibility professionals don't think about this. This one change makes a big difference in readability. [Start video transcript] Howdy, Meryl here with an accessibility tip. This one change makes a big difference. Even a11y (short for accessibility) pros don’t do this. Use left alignment instead of center. It greatly improves readability. The starting point of each line is easier to find and scan. [End transcript] When the starting point of each line changes, the eyes work harder to find the next line. It disrupts the scanning process. This applies to everything: Headings, bulleted lists (yes, I've seen centered bulleted lists), and images with text. Of course, there are always exceptions. I always say there are no absolutes in disability inclusion and accessibility. The image shows the entire transcript. The left side shows the centered-aligned text. The right side shows the left-aligned text. Thank you for being an accessibility ally. Which one do you prefer? Why? 🔔 Tap the silent profile bell to catch the next post 👉 Follow #MerylMots for past posts ✉️ Want to make progress with disability inclusion and accessibility? Contact me. #Captioned #Video #Accessibility

Here's an easy accessibility tip. A lot of people including accessibility professionals don't think about this. This one change makes a big difference in readability. [Start video transcript] Howdy, Meryl here with an accessibility tip. This one change makes a big difference. Even a11y (short for accessibility) pros don’t do this. Use left alignment instead of center. It greatly improves readability. The starting point of each line is easier to find and scan. [End transcript] When the starting point of each line changes, the eyes work harder to find the next line. It disrupts the scanning process. This applies to everything: Headings, bulleted lists (yes, I've seen centered bulleted lists), and images with text. Of course, there are always exceptions. I always say there are no absolutes in disability inclusion and accessibility. The image shows the entire transcript. The left side shows the centered-aligned text. The right side shows the left-aligned text. Thank you for being an accessibility ally. Which one do you prefer? Why? 🔔 Tap the silent profile bell to catch the next post 👉 Follow #MerylMots for past posts ✉️ Want to make progress with disability inclusion and accessibility? Contact me. #Captioned #Video #Accessibility

Accessibility is both simple and complex. It is in one way just “usability for a wider audience” when it comes to product research, design, and engineering, but in the larger picture it’s so much more. It’s getting project managers to understand a new process to scope and resource for. It’s getting product managers understanding accessibility requirements early and getting bought in on why they need to achieve it. It’s forming an alliance with Legal at places starting their accessibility journeys and then moving beyond basic compliance when the accessibility program is mature. It’s working with Marketing to understand a specific audience that has had to find different ways of finding relevant content they can trust. It’s finding time in your day, week, month, that never existed to train and explain accessibility best practices to your coworkers. It’s finding hidden allies across your company and maintaining trustworthy relationships over years and years. It’s hearing “No” but even more “We’ll try to get it in for Day 2”, which gets your hopes up even more. It’s about working with the disability community in every you can. It starts with listening to customers with disabilities, then recruiting UXR participants with disabilities, then the big jump to hiring and promoting people. As someone who is Dyslexic, and diagnosed later in life, it’s still unnatural for me to identify as disabled. That needs to change in order for everyone to view accessibility as necessary as it should be. It’s waking up every day and knowing you get to work on something that’s actually of value to some one. #accessibility #inclusivedesign #nothingaboutuswithoutus #disability #jobs #processimprovement #strategy #organizationalbehavior

Accessibility is both simple and complex. It is in one way just “usability for a wider audience” when it comes to product research, design, and engineering, but in the larger picture it’s so much more. It’s getting project managers to understand a new process to scope and resource for. It’s getting product managers understanding accessibility requirements early and getting bought in on why they need to achieve it. It’s forming an alliance with Legal at places starting their accessibility journeys and then moving beyond basic compliance when the accessibility program is mature. It’s working with Marketing to understand a specific audience that has had to find different ways of finding relevant content they can trust. It’s finding time in your day, week, month, that never existed to train and explain accessibility best practices to your coworkers. It’s finding hidden allies across your company and maintaining trustworthy relationships over years and years. It’s hearing “No” but even more “We’ll try to get it in for Day 2”, which gets your hopes up even more. It’s about working with the disability community in every you can. It starts with listening to customers with disabilities, then recruiting UXR participants with disabilities, then the big jump to hiring and promoting people. As someone who is Dyslexic, and diagnosed later in life, it’s still unnatural for me to identify as disabled. That needs to change in order for everyone to view accessibility as necessary as it should be. It’s waking up every day and knowing you get to work on something that’s actually of value to some one. #accessibility #inclusivedesign #nothingaboutuswithoutus #disability #jobs #processimprovement #strategy #organizationalbehavior

Accessibility is both simple and complex. It is in one way just “usability for a wider audience” when it comes to product research, design, and engineering, but in the larger picture it’s so much more. It’s getting project managers to understand a new process to scope and resource for. It’s getting product managers understanding accessibility requirements early and getting bought in on why they need to achieve it. It’s forming an alliance with Legal at places starting their accessibility journeys and then moving beyond basic compliance when the accessibility program is mature. It’s working with Marketing to understand a specific audience that has had to find different ways of finding relevant content they can trust. It’s finding time in your day, week, month, that never existed to train and explain accessibility best practices to your coworkers. It’s finding hidden allies across your company and maintaining trustworthy relationships over years and years. It’s hearing “No” but even more “We’ll try to get it in for Day 2”, which gets your hopes up even more. It’s about working with the disability community in every you can. It starts with listening to customers with disabilities, then recruiting UXR participants with disabilities, then the big jump to hiring and promoting people. As someone who is Dyslexic, and diagnosed later in life, it’s still unnatural for me to identify as disabled. That needs to change in order for everyone to view accessibility as necessary as it should be. It’s waking up every day and knowing you get to work on something that’s actually of value to some one. #accessibility #inclusivedesign #nothingaboutuswithoutus #disability #jobs #processimprovement #strategy #organizationalbehavior

Accessibility is both simple and complex. It is in one way just “usability for a wider audience” when it comes to product research, design, and engineering, but in the larger picture it’s so much more. It’s getting project managers to understand a new process to scope and resource for. It’s getting product managers understanding accessibility requirements early and getting bought in on why they need to achieve it. It’s forming an alliance with Legal at places starting their accessibility journeys and then moving beyond basic compliance when the accessibility program is mature. It’s working with Marketing to understand a specific audience that has had to find different ways of finding relevant content they can trust. It’s finding time in your day, week, month, that never existed to train and explain accessibility best practices to your coworkers. It’s finding hidden allies across your company and maintaining trustworthy relationships over years and years. It’s hearing “No” but even more “We’ll try to get it in for Day 2”, which gets your hopes up even more. It’s about working with the disability community in every you can. It starts with listening to customers with disabilities, then recruiting UXR participants with disabilities, then the big jump to hiring and promoting people. As someone who is Dyslexic, and diagnosed later in life, it’s still unnatural for me to identify as disabled. That needs to change in order for everyone to view accessibility as necessary as it should be. It’s waking up every day and knowing you get to work on something that’s actually of value to some one. #accessibility #inclusivedesign #nothingaboutuswithoutus #disability #jobs #processimprovement #strategy #organizationalbehavior