Player FM - Internet Radio Done Right
20 subscribers
Checked 3d ago
Added seven years ago
Content provided by Colleen Gratzer. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Colleen Gratzer or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!
Go offline with the Player FM app!
Podcasts Worth a Listen
SPONSORED
A
Accidental CEO Podcast


1 72: If You Want to Grow—Stop Fixing the Wrong Problem 16:32
16:32
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked16:32
You’re busy—but are you actually growing? In this episode, Nata Salvatori exposes a trap that’s costing service providers time, money, and sanity: chasing busywork that feels productive but doesn’t move the needle. She walks through a clear, five-step growth path—from clarifying your offer, validating through real sales, delivering sustainably, building repeatable systems, to scaling confidently. You’ll learn: How to spot and ditch “fake work” Why clarity beats complexity every time How to use real feedback to validate your offers Delivery tips that prevent burnout System creation that enables scaling How to honor your current phase of growth 📌 Ready to stop spinning your wheels and make real moves? Map your phase, pick your next action, and don’t be afraid to ask for help: 👉 accidentalceo.co/coaching Support the show…
2025 State of Website Accessibility
Manage episode 476026680 series 2198490
Content provided by Colleen Gratzer. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Colleen Gratzer or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
191 Find out what these website accessibility insights from the 2025 WebAIM Million report, using the WAVE automated checker, mean for you as a web designer or developer today.
104 episodes
Manage episode 476026680 series 2198490
Content provided by Colleen Gratzer. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Colleen Gratzer or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
191 Find out what these website accessibility insights from the 2025 WebAIM Million report, using the WAVE automated checker, mean for you as a web designer or developer today.
104 episodes
All episodes
×D
Design Domination

#194 Find out 10 surprising facts about me—my education, other jobs I’ve had, a famous relative, a paralyzing fear, the type of design work I refuse to do and more.
D
Design Domination

#193 People spend several hours a day consuming video content. If your audio and video content isn’t accompanied by a transcript, it will be much less accessible to everyone, not just certain users. Find out how to create a transcript and 7 reasons you should.
D
Design Domination

1 5 Tips for Creating Accessible PDFs Efficiently 12:28
12:28
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked12:28
#192 If you’re new to creating accessible PDFs from InDesign, Word, PowerPoint or if you don’t have an efficient process, then you may face certain challenges. Get 5 tips for creating accessible PDFs efficiently.
D
Design Domination

191 Find out what these website accessibility insights from the 2025 WebAIM Million report, using the WAVE automated checker, mean for you as a web designer or developer today.
D
Design Domination

#190 You might think that video captions are only for accessibility and for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Here are 7 reasons to add captions to videos that may surprise you.
D
Design Domination

#189 Another website accessibility overlay company has been sued. This time it involves UserWay and a class-action lawsuit. Find out what this means for you as a website designer or developer.
D
Design Domination

Graphic designers often ask if accessibility laws and guidelines apply to print design, not just websites, document and other digital content. The answer might surprise you.
D
Design Domination

#187 An accessibility statement is an important but sometimes overlooked part of a website. Find out why a website should have an accessibility statement, what it should include and how to create an accessibility statement.
D
Design Domination

1 European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know 9:12
9:12
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked9:12
186: The June 2025 deadline for the European Accessibility Act is fast approaching. Find out what you need to know and how it may affect the websites you build, even if you’re outside of the E.U.
D
Design Domination

1 FTC Fines accessiBe $1 Million for Deceptive Claims 11:00
11:00
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked11:00
185: What you need to know about the FTC complaint against accessiBe and what it means for web designers and developers.
D
Design Domination

#184 Find out from this accessible design critique how accessibility can affect food package design in the marketplace.
D
Design Domination

#183 Find out the biggest accessibility mistake when it comes to document design, web design or infographic design and how to avoid it, so that your designs will be more accessible.
D
Design Domination

#182 Find out about why it's important to understand the difference between accessibility compliance versus conformance when doing accessibility work.
D
Design Domination

1 10 Things You Should Know About Accessibility in 5 Minutes 6:12
6:12
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked6:12
#181 Do you think accessibility doesn't apply to you as a designer? Are you trying to get others on board with it? Here are 10 things you should know about accessibility in 5 minutes.
D
Design Domination

1 21 Business Lessons After 21 Years in Business 34:07
34:07
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked34:07
#180 Find out 21 business lessons I’ve learned over the past 21 years of having a successful creative business that will give you more confidence and clarity with your own freelance design business.
D
Design Domination

1 Adobes New Terms of Service What You Need to KnowWith Matt the Lawyer 36:43
36:43
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked36:43
#179 Adobe’s latest terms of service updates have caused an uproar in the design industry, with designers saying they are leaving Adobe once and for all. Find out what you need to know—from a lawyer—about Adobe’s terms of use.
D
Design Domination

1 #1 Accessible Infographic Creator — With Eugene Woo 37:34
37:34
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked37:34
#178 Many designers want an alternative to Adobe and Canva that will help them create accessible infographics and short documents that can be edited by non-designers and don’t have to be remediated. Find out how accessible infographic creator Venngage can help you do that.
D
Design Domination

#177 A lot of designers think having big clients is the key to making more money in their creative business. But that is not the case, and there are many pros and cons to working with them. Find out the advantages and disadvantages to working with big clients versus small clients and which ones you should work with.…
D
Design Domination

#176 Find out where to get quality free fonts you can legally use for design projects, surprising reasons you should use certain free fonts, and accessibility concerns with certain types of typefaces.
D
Design Domination

#175 The WebAIM Million provides insightful data on the top 1 million web pages. Find out what you need to know as a web designer or developer about the state of website accessibility in 2024.
D
Design Domination

1 Canva Acquires Affinity: What It Means for Designers 11:15
11:15
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked11:15
#174 The news of Canva buying Affinity and its parent company Serif has shocked and outraged designers worldwide. Find out more about the Affinity acquisition and what it means for designers.
D
Design Domination

1 Key Findings From the WebAIM 2024 Screen Reader User Survey 10:36
10:36
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked10:36
#173 The WebAIM 2024 Screen Reader User Survey provides insights we can use to perform better web accessibility testing and to understand more about screen reader users’ behavior and preferences.
D
Design Domination

1 Business Success From Personal Discovery—With Shannon Mattern 46:14
46:14
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked46:14
#172 Shannon Mattern of Web Designer Academy talks about how personal discoveries and coaching helped her stop undercharging and overdelivering and actually create a more enjoyable, profitable web design business.
D
Design Domination

1 Where to Find Clients Needing Accessibility Services 6:41
6:41
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked6:41
#171 There are so many places where you can find clients who need your accessibility services. Many of them are already knowledgeable about accessibility and understand they need it and are even easy to find.
D
Design Domination

#170 Find out how thinking like a doctor can help your creative business. Get business strategies for getting clients, the sales process and your work processes.
D
Design Domination

1 What to Do When You Screw Up a Client Project 12:27
12:27
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked12:27
#169 A screw-up is bound to happen at some point in your creative career. The circumstances around the mistake and how you handle the situation affect your credibility, reputation and bottom line. Find out what to do when you screw up a client project.
D
Design Domination

#168 Accessibility company Level Access has warned against website accessibility overlays in the past. So it shocked the accessibility industry when they announced plans to acquire UserWay, known for its overlay. Find out what this potentially means for the industry.
D
Design Domination

#167 Get the scoop about what happened with Adobe acquiring Figma and what it means for designers.
D
Design Domination

#166 Thinking about sending a client a gift? Find out what to consider before sending a gift to a client, when to send a gift, what to send clients as a gift and more.
D
Design Domination

1 How APCA Changes Accessible Contrast—With Andrew Somers 1:17:30
1:17:30
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked1:17:30
#165 APCA calculates contrast differently from WCAG and is expected to be part of WCAG 3. Find out from APCA creator Andrew Somers the problem with WCAG contrast ratios, why APCA is more accurate and how you can make your colors more accessible.
D
Design Domination

#164 One way to make your documents and website content more accessible is to use an accessible heading structure. Find out some common mistakes when styling headings, easy, actionable tips for how to create accessible headings and tools to check them.
D
Design Domination

1 From Generalist to Specialist With Chris Hinds 41:46
41:46
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked41:46
#163 Chris Hinds of Equalize Digital shares their story of going from generalist designers to web accessibility specialists, giving them clarity and a competitive edge, winning clients more easily, improving their processes and making marketing efforts easier.
#162 Get a plain-English summary of the 9 new success criteria in the WCAG 2.2 guidelines, so that you can make your websites more accessible.
D
Design Domination

#161 Do you spend a lot of time explaining what you need to clients? Tired of clients sending you the wrong files or not following your processes? Find out how to get what you need from clients to make for a smoother client relationship and more profitable projects.
D
Design Domination

Is having a website worth it? Where should you create your design website? Where should you post your portfolio online? If you’re serious about building a freelance design business, find out why you should have your own website.
D
Design Domination

1 5 Must-have Acrobat Accessibility Preflight Fixups 8:02
8:02
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked8:02
#159 Do you design or remediate accessible documents and find some of the PDF work to be tedious and time consuming? Find out five Acrobat preflight fixups that will speed up your accessible PDF workflow when it comes to artifacting, hyperlinks and more.
D
Design Domination

#158 Find out the top 10 logo design podcast episodes from Design Domination and other podcasts that talk about understanding more about logo design, how to design a logo, how to price a logo, how to get clients and which file formats to create for a logo.
#157 Thinking of going out on your own as a freelance graphic designer or web designer? Find out the pros and cons of being a full-time freelancer versus employee and some points to consider before working for yourself full time.
D
Design Domination

1 AudioEye vs Adrian Roselli: The SLAPP Heard Around the World 9:28
9:28
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked9:28
#156 The web accessibility community is in an uproar about the AudioEye lawsuit against 30-year accessibility champion Adrian Roselli for his criticism of their overlay product.
D
Design Domination

#155 Learn how to work more efficiently in Adobe InDesign with these time-saving 10 tips about features that most graphic designers don’t use. The more you know InDesign, the easier it is to incorporate accessibility into the layout process too.
D
Design Domination

#154 Providing good customer service doesn’t mean you have to be at the whim of every client request or that the client is always right. In fact, if you do that, your business will suffer. Find out why people pleasing is bad for your creative business.
D
Design Domination

#153 Ensuring that hyperlinks are accessible for all website visitors increases the accessibility and usability of a website. There are functional, cognitive and visual factors to consider. Find out 9 tips for creating accessible hyperlinks on websites.
D
Design Domination

#152 A design brief, or creative brief, helps you get more respect and be seen as an expert as a designer. Find out how to write a creative brief and how it helps not only you but the designer-client relationship and the design process.
D
Design Domination

#151 Learn how to leverage the About page on your website so that you stand out and increase your chances of getting new clients. Find out tips for what to include and how to write a good About page even if you find it hard to talk about yourself.
D
Design Domination

1 The Risks of Having One Big Client (Gorilla Client) 15:56
15:56
Play Later
Play Later
Lists
Like
Liked15:56
#150 Having a client who makes up a large portion of your income is a blessing and a curse. They keep you busy, but you lose focus on your freelance business. Find out if you have any gorilla clients, or high client concentration, and what to do about it.
Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.