Resources

Books, tools and documentation I often recommend to people.

Books

  • Digital Accessibility Ethics
    By Lainey Feingold, Regine Gilbert, Chancey Fleet
    Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
  • Considerate Content
    By Rebekah Barry
    Considerate Content: How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions.
  • Design Justice
    By Sasha Costanza-Chock
    “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities.
  • Radical Candor
    By Kim Scott
    Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. From Kim Scott, former manager at Google and Apple, and CEO coach to Silicon Valley.
  • Escaping The Build Trap
    By Melissa Perri
    Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the “build trap,” cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs.
  • The Lean Product Playbook
    By Dan Olsen
    This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit.

Testing and tools

  • a11y-tools.com
    Ian Lloyd’s collection of handy accessibility bookmarklets and tools.
  • GDS Accessibility Tool Audit
    A benchmark of how different automated testing tools perform.
  • Accessibility Insights
    Automated checks plus guided manual assessments against WCAG.
  • axe-core
    Deque’s automated accessibility testing engine, used by countless other tools.
  • axe DevTools
    Browser extension for quick automated accessibility checks while you work.
  • Pa11y
    Automated accessibility testing runner you can drive from the command line.
  • WAVE Evaluation Tool
    WebAIM’s browser extension for visualising accessibility issues on a page.

Documentation and guidance