APPLYING ACCESSIBILITY FIXES WITH STEALTH FOR THE GREATER GOOD

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Web accessibility remains marginalized in tech due to widespread ableism — a bias rooted in the medical model of disability, where barriers are blamed on users rather than products. Fixing this doesn't require management approval: understanding an organization's culture, climate, and power lines allows developers to find allies and push changes from the ground up. Four tactical roles — adviser, mediator, smuggler, and hacker — offer practical ways to embed accessibility improvements into daily work, even without official backing.