Justin Yarbrough

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Blind. Digital accessibility coach/SME, writer, and speaker. Loves sports, travel, and airplanes. Believer in not taking life too seriously. Opinions mine.
LocationAustin, Texas area
Websitehttps://yarbrough.info
PronounsHe/him
very important videohttps://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
I caught myself about to throw a Tide pod in the dryer earlier in case you're wondering how my day's going.
Flying non-rev is always an adventure.
I defragged my zebra ...
I will keep dying on this hill

One of my friends accidentally dropped her phone down an elevator shaft a few days ago. Today when another friend was showing me how it happened, talking about how funny it was and how stupid the other girl must've been, she dropped her own phone down the same elevator shaft. And you're saying that karma doesn't exist?

Here's hoping that the same thing doesn't happen to me now because I can't stop laughing.

Really loving my time in London so far. I'd forgotten just how much I miss international travel, this is our first trip outside the US since 2019.

There are two types of people in the world:

1. People who finish what they start

Appreciating the irony of a blind guy sitting in a window seat that doesn't actually have a window...

"…I operated under the wild misconception that all I needed to do was train my teams to do accessibility. Developers, QAs, designers, all they needed was training!"

I highly recommend reading @reidmore's new post, "Accessibility training will not save you," today. It's so good.
https://www.reidmore.online/post/accessibility-training-will-not-save-you
#accessibility

Accessibility training will not save you

A follow-up to my talk at A11yTO I cannot pinpoint the source of this misconception, it could have been a vendor, or long-lost blog post, or one of the many webinars I attended in my early days as a program lead. Regardless of the source, I operated under the wild misconception that all I needed to do was train my teams to do accessibility. Developers, QAs, designers, all they needed was training! This model was encouraged by senior leadership, and it's easy to see why. Even though accessibility

Reidmore
Do you want Ninja Turtles? Because that's how you get Ninja Turtles https://abc7.com/green-slime-nyc-sewers-new-york-city-lower-manhattan/14018262/
Bright green liquid seen oozing from sewer onto New York City streets

What looked like bright green slime was spotted oozing from sewers onto the streets of New York City, leaving residents puzzled.

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