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Regaining your accessibility spark
All jobs have up and down cycles. Try these steps to get back on the upswing when you are on a down cycle in your accessibility journey.

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It is inevitable that somewhere along an accessibility journey, accessibility professionals hit walls. They run out of steam. They go to that well of energy one more time only to bring up an empty bucket. When (not if) this happens to you, all of the suggestions below have helped me get back on a positive track without becoming toxically positive.
Remind yourself why you do the work
Stop looking at only the trees, and focus for a little while on the forest. This bug, those negative test results, that cross-functional business struggle — that’s the stuff that gets us down. Those events are all accessibility “trees.” It is easy as an accessibility professional to allow your focus to be pulled to the immediate crisis du jour. Let’s face it; there are usually plenty of crises to chose from when you are…