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Derek Featherstone

Inclusive teaching: audio describing your own presentations

Apr 21, 2021

Apr 21, 2021

What’s your accessibility mantra and how has it changed?

I was one of several panelists for a UXPA Cleveland meetup tonight on Inclusive Design (virtually, of course). I’m grateful to have been…

Mar 25, 2021

Mar 25, 2021

The ongoing evolution of ‘Shift left’

Every area of practice — technical nor not — evolve over time. That’s no different for accessibility. We move through stages of maturity…

Feb 13, 2021

Feb 13, 2021

Fear of Becoming Irrelevant

When I left my full-time job teaching high school in 1999, I started to teach people how to design and build web sites. I decided that in…

Jan 29, 2020

Jan 29, 2020

A long streak ends

I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong. This time I was.

Jan 19, 2020

Jan 19, 2020

Life tracking

About 8 weeks ago, I listened to the audio book “Off the Clock” by Laura Vanderkam. I was completely struck by a statement Laura made…

Nov 8, 2018

Life tracking

Nov 8, 2018

I wish I’d known…

We had the floors redone in our house after some water damage. We hired several contractors that knew what they were doing. They were…

Jul 7, 2018

I wish I’d known…

Jul 7, 2018

Change of pace

As teachers and speakers, when we deliver a talk, a workshop, a class, or other type of teaching session, we need to think about how to…

Jun 30, 2018

Jun 30, 2018

How you should REALLY use bullet points in a presentation

I’m headed to the American Banker’s Association Regulatory Compliance Conference (yeah, that’s a mouthful…) and I’m thinking ahead to the…

Jun 24, 2018

How you should REALLY use bullet points in a presentation

Jun 24, 2018

Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone

VP Accessibility & Inclusive Design at Salesforce. Speaker & Teacher. IronMan Finisher '07, '09, '10. I'd love for you to say hi :)

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