Or: You don’t need to fix everything right now. You just need to care enough to start.
Accessibility can feel overwhelming. Maybe you’ve inherited a site full of unlabeled buttons, missing alt text, and inaccessible PDFs. Maybe you’re not even sure what you’re looking at yet.
And maybe, just maybe, no one else around you seems to care.
But here’s the thing: you don’t have to do it all at once.
You just have to do something.
You start with what you’ve got
Maybe that’s your own writing. Maybe it’s a single page you can redesign. Maybe you’re the one asking the awkward questions in a design review.
That’s already something. That’s already better than it was yesterday.
You don’t need permission to write better link text.
You don’t need a budget to use proper heading levels.
You don’t need buy-in to label your form fields properly.
Start there. And keep going.
The 1% rule
You don’t have to be perfect. But you can get 1% better, over and over again.
Fix one thing on every page you touch. Ask one question in every meeting. Take one screenshot to show a developer where something’s broken.
Accessibility isn’t a checkbox – it’s a practice. And every tiny improvement compounds.
Learn one, teach one
As you go, pass it on. That’s how culture spreads. Not through posters and policies, but through humans helping other humans figure it out.
You’re allowed to say “I don’t know, but let’s find out.”
You’re allowed to ask for better defaults.
You’re allowed to care.
If all you do is make one person’s experience easier – your colleague, your customer, your future self – then you’re already making a difference.
Progress over perfection
Will you make mistakes? Of course. We all do.
But accessibility isn’t about getting everything right the first time. It’s about caring enough to notice what’s wrong – and doing your best to fix it.Keep going.
Keep learning.
Keep lifting the floor.