Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog

Hiring people with disabilities shouldn’t be complicated. Yet for many organizations, disability inclusion in recruiting seems impossible. Companies write diversity statements. They say the right things about equal opportunity and post jobs on disability-specific boards. They might even host an…

A sighted person glances at an empty space and reads it as part of a whole. A screen reader user lands on that same empty space and reads it as a question: Is this blank on purpose, did something just…

  You love your WordPress theme. It took hours to get everyone to agree on it. You’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into getting your content just right. But it isn’t accessible. Maybe you are a Title II organization staring…

To people who do not use assistive technology, partial accessibility sounds like a reasonable compromise. Some access is better than none, the thinking goes, and an organization that fixed half its problems is surely better than one that fixed nothing.…

Every person sitting through your accessibility presentation is silently asking the same question: “What’s In It For Me?” They may not say it out loud. They may even agree with you in principle. WIIFM might be hidden in other thoughts,…

TL;DR: Half of U.S. states now require online age verification, and the systems doing the verifying were not built with disabled faces in mind. Age verification is having a moment in the United States. Half the states now require it…

Tomorrow is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. If you are expecting a post full of colored banners, virtual events, and “let’s raise awareness!” energy, keep looking, this is not that post. Disability advocates across the US are exhausted, and we have…

Most accessibility managers have a vague sense of who their strongest team members are and, similarly, who the weakest are. Vagueness stops being good enough the moment a layoff list lands on your desk or a high-stakes audit is staffed…