Heather Buchel

Something I've been stewing on lately, as someone introduced to teams as an "accessibility specialist", is how much I am actually able to influence teams to improve their practices around web accessibility.

Every so often the creative things in my life become a burden that I overthink.

I was thinking about parts of the web community/industry that we've lost in the past 5 years or so and speculating on some of the reasons why.

This article from Salma really resonates with me and honestly explains why I'm so sour about AI code assistant tools.

I was just thinking about how people can get very defensive when you bring up accessibility issues that need to be addressed and how it differs depending on your audience.

TLDR: Get your accessibility tooling off from your developers' machines and into the CI.

I recently remembered that early-ish in 2024 I started a thread of games I wanted to play in the upcoming year.

As I'm currently looking for my next role, I've had to do serious reflection on the work I actually want to do.

I thought I'd make a list of things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self as a web developer who was just beginning to lean into web accessibility as part of her career path.

TLDR: At some point, we told design they couldn't sit with us anymore, and surprise!