What happens when accessibility work takes an unexpected turn into music and video? My journey with Case for Vision led to a jingle, a set of inclusive promo videos, and a creative collaboration with blind, deaf, and neurodiverse artists. It’s a story of friendship, innovation, and marketing done right.
Category: Advocacy
Accessibility Statements are not Legal Contracts. They’re Value Signals.
When a popular blog post called accessibility statements “corporate lies,” I had to speak up. These statements aren’t legal contracts—but they are powerful tools for accountability, trust, and user-centered improvement. Here’s why throwing them out does more harm than good.
Pedal Point Solutions is Proud to Announce Its Certification as a Disability-Owned Business
Pedal Point Solutions is now officially certified as a Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE) through Disability\:IN. This milestone reflects the company’s deep commitment to inclusion, innovation, and lived accessibility expertise. As a blind-founded agency, Pedal Point brings authentic insight and trusted leadership to every client partnership.
The power of “and”: one word that can transform accessibility conversations
What if changing just one word could defuse tension, build empathy, and move your accessibility conversations forward? Replacing “but” with “and” is a simple yet powerful shift that opens doors instead of closing them. Whether you’re advocating for inclusion or just trying to be heard, this is a technique worth mastering.
Disability and Divine Appointment: How an Unlikely Friendship Changed My Life
Some friendships begin in ways you’d never imagine. When I responded to a stranger’s cry for help, I didn’t realize it would lead to months of companionship, advocacy, and deep spiritual formation.
CSUN 2025: One of the Best Conferences of My Life
Attending CSUN 2025 was an unforgettable experience filled with insightful sessions, groundbreaking innovations, and inspiring individuals. It was a rare and powerful environment where accessibility wasn’t just a topic of conversation—it was a lived experience.
Get a taste of how blind people experience the web with Site Unseen
Here’s a primer on the Site Unseen Chrome extension, a tool that helps you appreciate how blind people use the web. Site Unseen enables you to foster empathy for those with vision disabilities, build the case for accessible web design, and test for web accessibility issues.
4 approaches to advocating for accessibility and how they fit together
There are several perspectives from which to advocate for digital accessibility. This post describes four of these approaches and explores how they connect with and compliment each other to strengthen the overall case for accessible websites, apps, and other digital products.
Against Technoableism, or why tech can’t fix my disability
In her book “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew explores the intricate and sometimes sinister relationship between technology and disability and how it impacts you and me every day. Here are my key impressions and takeaways.
How a trip to the Colorado mountains taught me about dynamic disability
Disability is not static, but fluctuates and zigzags depending on time, environment, circumstance and many other factors. I learned this first-hand when I traveled to the Colorado Rockies.