Accessibility Debt — What is it? How to pay it off ???

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
6 min readJun 11, 2019

Sometimes, accessibility isn’t important until suddenly it is.

Cartoon young man kicking a can

The accessibility paradigm shift from “yeah, eventually” to being included as part of “business as usual” usually derives from one of the following occurances:

  1. a lost sales opportunity over lack of accessibility compliance
  2. an EEOC complaint alleging…

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Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

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