BACKGROUND: I often get these small business types that have an overlay on their website and they got sued so just want to make the law go away, basically. Just make it accessible so we can't get sued, kind of people, and their marketing person runs their Shopify website, which is a whole yikes to me, no wonder 9 billion upsell popups happened when I visited your page.
LMAO!
Client to me. Hey, we were wondering when it would be a good idea for our marketing and PR team to meet with you so we can review our website?
Aside to camera: For the uninitiated, this usually means me doing a live Zoom presentation of their CMS based website with an inaccessible theme, with an accessibility overlay installed on it, making it worse, something I hate anyway, while they watch me navigate their website, without a single clue of what I'm doing or why I navigate the way I navigate with NVDA. They're the kind of people that ask questions like, why does your screen talker sound like a robot? And why aren't you tabbing everywhere? I thought you were supposed to tab places. Back to our regularly scheduled email, though.
Me. I’d love to set up a meeting! I'm free this day and time, that day and time, in this time zone. No need to bring your marketing and PR people to the call. I’d get far more productive use out of my time if an actual web developer were to join the call. May I set up time with your web developer to talk about web design and what we're experiencing throughout the demonstration? I can record it no problem, so everyone is informed. Could you share your web developers email with me, as I’d love to set something up and provide some initial observations that we can take care of before the demonstration. Oh and also, here's an accessibility ready theme for <CMS Platform> that will get you at least 70% of the way there.
Days later.
Client. Thank you, but we want to go with someone else. We don't have a web developer. Could you recommend some accessibility testers that will work with us in good faith?
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