My Healthy Obsession With Saving Time (+Accessibility Tracker)

I self-cured 50% of my obsessive compulsive disorder when it finally dawned on me how much time it was costing me in the aggregate.

I thought to myself, I can’t go back and double tap that sidewalk panel anymore; I’m taking days off my life.

More recently, I settled an internal debate over whether or not to correct mistyped text messages (not to correct won out).

More and more I’ve given up and abandoned certain things for the sake of garnering the one thing we can’t get back.

Maybe it’s because I’m 44 now (vs. 24). Maybe it’s because of the times (technology means faster, quicker, faster). And/or maybe this is just where a productive lifestyle has led me.

As part of my pursuit of efficiency, I don’t want to spend more time than is necessary on accessibility projects. And neither do my clients.

So let’s get them done. With less raw time and in a shorter duration.

Question to you, the reader:

Would you rather finish an accessibility project in 5 months over 100 hours or 2 months over 40 hours?

I ask because that’s exactly what I’m pitching you with Accessibility Tracker: subscribe to a plan and Tracker will save you a lot of time.

Tracker is our new web app that makes remediation (fixing the issues) and validation (making sure the fixes are correct) quite realistically 2.5x more efficient.

Especially when it comes to validation.

There are 5 AI tools, pre-prompted, that already know the exact issue (and context) you’re working on, that are right inside your project dashboard. These tools can work wonders for zooming a project past the pace of comparable projects in 2024.

But AI is just one time-saver.

Tracker’s 10+ features reduce friction and increase efficiency in all sorts of ways.

Just taking accessibility projects away from being scan-based is a tremendous win. (No more furiously driving to a 100% score of only an automated scan.)

Another is much less email back and forth.

Read more on 10 Tracker features (for starters, we’re not done yet) that can cumulatively zoom projects to a 2.5x faster finish time.

For all of you fellow time trackers keeping score at home, you get:

• raw time reduction (e.g., save 25 raw hours)
• duration reduction (e.g., this project has been completed in 4 weeks, not 10 and is now off my to-do list)
• mental energy savings (i.e., I only have so much peak thinking time and I’d like to allocate this to where I need it the most, not accessibility project emails)

And indirectly this means more time for:

• vacations — beach, mountain or otherwise
• holiday cookie baking sessions
• dog walks in the park
• movie night under a sea of blankets

This saving time stuff. It makes a lot of sense.

I haven’t mastered the art of time saving, but I do know that if you have an accessibility project centered around a website, app, software, platform, or another digital asset, all you need is an accessibility audit report in Excel spreadsheet format and Accessibility Tracker can put lots of hours back in your pocket.

Sign up for a free plan at AccessibilityTracker.com.