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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

Everyone Loses When Paying Fines Becomes a Business Strategy

Compliance failures are triggering urgency or internal organizational reckoning less frequently. Instead, they prompt budgeting discussions, legal modeling, and risk acceptance exercises. Fines, legal fees, and settlement agreement costs are appearing in budgets. Legal teams estimate exposure ranges. Finance teams…
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The Accessibility Manager Moment No One Warns You About

The demand letter/lawsuit lands first. The questions come next. “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” one or more of the CEO / COO / CFO / Corporate Counsel asks, genuinely surprised. If you work in accessibility leadership, you already know the…
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Why I Don’t Call Myself an Accessibility Expert

I’ve been working in the fields of disability inclusion and digital accessibility for over two decades. I’ve filed thousands of bugs. I’ve led accessibility programs at major tech companies. I’ve served on standards committees. I’ve written hundreds of articles and…
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AI will Eliminate the Need for Accessibility Professionals? I think not

Every day, there are more articles about AI replacing people in tech. Accessibility testers, who are very often viewed as “unnecessary overhead,” are not escaping this treatment. It was this “we can replace accessibility testers with software” strategy that made…
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Accessibility Triumph Thursday: BrokenLifts.org

This week, I want to highlight the BrokenLifts.org website. BrokenLifts is a grassroots initiative providing real-time information about out-of-service elevators in Berlin’s public transportation system. For wheelchair users and others who depend on elevators, this resource saves people from wasted…
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Accessibility Meme Monday: Post an accessibility statement immediately after receiving a demand letter?

I saw an accessibility consulting agency share advice on responding to an accessibility demand letter. Recommendations 1 and 2 were spot on: consult a lawyer and an accessibility specialist. However, Recommendation 3 is something I would never endorse. Of course,…
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DEI is about investing in equity and valuing people over profits. stop farming it as a question of process or policy.

If you claim to hate DEI, what you are actually saying is you don’t believe people who identify as members of underrepresented communities should be treated equally. If that realization makes you uncomfortable, sit with it for a while. Stop…
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Accessibility and DEI are Deeply Interconnected

Accessibility and DEI are deeply interconnected. Too often, organizations treat them as separate initiatives. This disconnect risks creating accessibility solutions that lack depth and fail to address the real-world challenges people with disabilities face. For accessibility to thrive, it must…
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Accessibility Triumph Thursday: Trump White House rescinds freeze memo on federal grants, ending feud with Congress

The Trump administration’s decision to rescind the federal grant freeze is a clear triumph—not just for DEI advocates, but for anyone who values constitutional integrity. Now, time and resources won’t have to be wasted fighting something blatantly unconstitutional. Sometimes, politics…
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Disability Erasure 8

Disability Erasure Step 7 came and went in the blink of an eye. A completely unconstitutional freeze on block funding for programs that would have hit people with disabilities hard. Section 8 housing, medical services, small business loans — all…
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