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Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone

Inclusive teaching: audio describing your own presentations

4 min readApr 21, 2021

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Derek Featherstone

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…

2 min readMar 25, 2021

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Derek Featherstone

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…

3 min readFeb 13, 2021

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Derek Featherstone

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…

4 min readJan 29, 2020

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Derek Featherstone

A long streak ends

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

3 min readJan 19, 2020

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Derek Featherstone

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…

4 min readNov 8, 2018

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Life tracking

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Derek Featherstone

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…

2 min readJul 7, 2018

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I wish I’d known…

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Derek Featherstone

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…

2 min readJun 30, 2018

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Derek Featherstone

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…

2 min readJun 24, 2018

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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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