Yes and… What Improv Theater Teaches Us About Being Better Accessibility Professionals

Nobody loves hearing about accessibility issues in a feature they are getting ready to ship. Sharing testing results and having remediation talks can turn tense fast. In this talk, I’ll borrow four rules from improv, “Yes, and…,” active listening, choosing character over plot, and finding play in constraints, to turn audits, accessibility testing reviews, and remediation requests into playful collaborations where participants and facilitators act more like scene partners and less like opponents.