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Giving a Damn About Accessibility

Giving a Damn About Accessibility

Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn.

2021

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

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Applying Ted Lasso management lessons to accessibility

Authors note: Because of Medium’s refusal to address its accessibility issues for both authors and readers, I’ve moved my last three years…

Apr 28, 2022

Ted Lasso (played by actor Jason Sudeikis) in a dark puffy coat wearing a backpack

Apr 28, 2022

Why You Need to Close Open Objects When Users Navigate Away

Imagine opening a dropdown, expanding an accordion, or opening a dialog box, then following a link that loads a new object. The old object…

1d ago

AI-generated image of five interior doors, all partially open

1d ago

When an airline breaks your wheelchair you lose more than equipment

I wish this were rare. It isn’t. As many other wheelchair users and I have documented, chairs get damaged far too often. I have publicly…

2d ago

Picture of a Whill CI Model 2 wheelchair joystick with the protective plastic still attached. The LED display, which is supposed to show the amount of battery remaining and speed, has 1/3 of the pixels blacked out and non-functional. The button panel has been ripped out because the hard plastic top was peeled back, which requires significant force.

2d ago

Why Separate Guest and Logged In States Create Accessibility Barriers

Do you have differing logged-in and logged-out experiences for your users?

Nov 5

Blue-themed simulated circuit board covered in shopping cart icons

Nov 5

Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility Requirements and Best Practices

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, reminding us that accessible design directly influences how millions read and engage with digital…

Nov 3

Designing for Dyslexia: Accessibility Requirements and Best Practices

Nov 3

Sometimes the Best Accessibility Fix is a Usability Fix

Teams often arbitrarily divide work into two piles: “UX defects” and “accessibility defects”. That split creates the belief that…

Oct 29

AI cartoon of woman with long dark hair struggling to open a bottle, a common form of usability failure.

Oct 29

Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior

There is a three-party storyline that frequently appears in social media:

Oct 22

A young lady in grey suit with eyeglass operating a laptop in an office setting.

Oct 22

Why Every Search Needs an Announced Empty State

We’ve all done it; Run a search and found no matches. Sometimes it’s because of a typo. Sometimes, it’s that there truly is nothing that…

Oct 15

Turquoise background with a white search functio,n with a finger poised over the magnification icon to execute the search

Oct 15

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The Accessibility Investment: Kelsey Lu’s Personal Journey

Written by Kelsey Lu, Accessibility Intern, published and edited by Sheri Byrne-Haber

Dec 13, 2022

Cartoon image of three female-appearing business people one of whom is in a wheelchair, viewing complicated investment dashboards and charts

Dec 13, 2022

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Getting a product accessible is not enough.

You have to create policies and procedures to keep it accessible. That’s why everyone needs to use an Accessibility Maturity Model.

Sep 19, 2022

Blurry headless picture of person in a dark t-shirt with their hands open wide. Between their hands there are two colored half circle arrows feeding back into one another, implicating feedback loop and repetition

Sep 19, 2022

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

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LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Former Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.

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