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Outer text wrapped as a border with dots in each corner. Design opinions with @oddi.jessica. Center text bold and left aligned. What works for you and your client? Against a camel colour background.
I don't have a set way of working. There's no templates, work sheets, or strict stages. [Unless you're like me and love organization! Then we'll come up with lists together.]
Instead, I get to know my client first. Find out their preferred methods of chatting, timelines, and access checks for both of us. Wait, clients have access requests too? Even if they're not disabled? I'm going to let you in on a secret. EVERYONE has access needs!
If you prefer video meetings over email because you communicate easier face to face. Guess what, friend? That's a way of making work more accessible for you. If you request a list of questions to answer because you're a tactile learner that prefers hands-on work. You guessed it! That's a form of accessibility.
Accessibility is more than a compliant final product. We need to reframe the way we think of it in every aspect of our lives. It's respecting boundaries, and accommodating each other's methods of working.
It's time I take my own advice! I've built this career to accommodate my body-mind. Yet lately have been ignoring my own access checks. This year's been so incredible! But the physical toll it's taken is doing a disservice to what I do for others.
So I'm taking a medical leave of absence from Dec 2021 to mid Jan 2022. Next year I'm scheduling myself out more to allow breathing space. And am currently booked solid until June of 2022. If you reach out for work before that I can recommend some of my favourite designers and people instead.
Because this disabled butt is tired. And I can't take on work if I can't even keep my own head up anymore.