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Month: February 2020

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Measuring Accessibility Outcomes

Posted on: February 27, 2020 March 6, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
Peter Drucker said “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”. Here’s how to gauge the success of disability inclusion / accessibility initiatives utcome is frequently quantitatively measured using benchmarks. Let’s say you need to get somewhere. You need four pieces of information…
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Disability inclusive workplaces

Posted on: February 25, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
Most diversity / inclusion articles don’t include disability. Here are things you need to consider to succeed at disability-related inclusion HBR recently published an article called 5 Strategies for Creating an Inclusive Workspace. And while the article is brilliant for addressing…
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This week in accessibility: NFB v. EPIC

Posted on: February 20, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
The inaccessible defendant won this round, but don’t count on their victory helping you in a similar situation. Recently, a Massachusetts district court decided in favor of a defendant who sold inaccessible software and dismissed a suit against them that was filed…
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Deconstructing Accessibility Statements

Posted on: February 18, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
Don’t read legal-ese? This will help you understand what accessibility statements actually say, and more importantly, why. This is MY interpretation of accessibility statement legal-ese. I am not your lawyer. You need to make up your own mind. With your…
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VMware’s First Accessibility Hackathon

Posted on: February 14, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
The first week in February marked VMware’s first accessibility week which consisted of an accessibility summit followed immediately by an accessibility hackathon. The fact that VMware held a successful accessibility hackathon only a year after starting its accessibility program is something to…
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7 things that turn good accessibility into great accessibility

Posted on: February 13, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
“It’s easy to pick on people who do a crappy job at accessibility. Why don’t you write an article on how to get people good at accessibility to up their game?” I was asked in one PM. Challenge accepted. The…
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My Superbowl hangover

Posted on: February 11, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
It is the Tuesday after the “big game” as I write this article. My annual headache is back. I don’t drink. Year after year I get aggravated beyond believe because the Superbowl producers give you a few seconds (if that)…
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10 things that indicate designers have no clue about accessibility

Posted on: February 5, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
Once you see more than one of the items below, you can be fairly sure that accessibility was not considered in design and development People frequently reach out to me* asking if a particular site is accessible. This happened last…
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To Disclose, or not to Disclose

Posted on: February 4, 2020 March 5, 2020 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber Comments: 0
That really is the question. And one lived by people with disabilities on a VERY regular basis when interviewing This article is not legal advice. If you have questions about how disclosing a disability can impact you legally, ask your…
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Recent Posts

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 said my chair is damaged on about one out of every ten flights. When you…
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Why Sticky Navigation Can Undermine Accessibility

“Sticky navigation” or “sticky nav” is a software design and implementation technique in which a header, menu, or other element remains fixed to the top or side of the screen as the user scrolls. Sticky navigation is extremely popular, especially…
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Why Americans with Disabilities Should Consider Entrepreneurship During Economic Upheaval

Economic downturns affect people with disabilities more severely than the general workforce. When companies cut costs, workers with disabilities often face disproportionate layoffs, hiring freezes, and workplace barriers that make it even harder to re-enter the job market. Then, if…
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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 content. Dyslexia impacts fluency, comprehension, and reading comfort, but careful accessibility practices can lower those barriers. Although there isn’t a single “fix,”…
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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 matches what you are looking for. People without disabilities can easily find their mistakes or…
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Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior

There is a three-party storyline that frequently appears in social media: Disabled person goes to a retail outlet (or school, hospital, restaurant, church or any other place of public accommodation). Someone at this location treats the disabled person horribly. The…
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Accessibility Considerations for Off-Site Navigation and Downloads

When a website links to content it does not own or control, it is easy for assistive technology users to miss that they’ve ended up on a different domain that likely has different accessibility, privacy, and security controls than the…
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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 accessibility is an add-on rather than a dimension of good design. In practice, accessibility gains often come from fixing ordinary UX…
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Why Separate Guest and Logged In States Create Accessibility Barriers

Do you have differing logged-in and logged-out experiences for your users? Do you merge the two when someone logs in? If you don’t, you are creating accessibility barriers. People often think of accessibility as something that happens on the surface…
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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 is still programmatically marked as open. That means it lingers in the accessibility tree. If you…
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