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Month: February 2022

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Should you describe yourself and your location in remote meetings?

Posted on: February 28, 2022 April 12, 2022 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber
Absolutely, but there needs to be a balance between the right amount of data and Too Much Information (TMI). Once, I was on a panel with a moderator and four other individuals scheduled to last 45 minutes. The moderator for…
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An accessibility review of the new Medium site

Posted on: February 17, 2022 April 12, 2022 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber
At the beginning of February, Medium launched a new format. I have highlighted Medium’s lack of concern over severe accessibility problems in a previous article and many LinkedIn posts and private messages to people who work for Medium. These issues entirely block…
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Many accessibility problems would be solved if business did three things

Posted on: February 15, 2022 April 12, 2022 Written by: Sheri Byrne-Haber
Three adjustments to the way we do business could vastly improve the world for people with disabilities I’ll be honest, most of the time, when I do panels or talks on accessibility, I recycle a fair amount of old material.…
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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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