November 2024 - Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog

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Disability Inclusive Holiday Party Planning

It’s that time of year again. Planning an inclusive holiday party goes beyond picking out festive decorations or sending fancy invitations. It’s about creating an environment where every employee feels welcome, safe, and able to fully participate. For employees with…

Forrest Gump in suit staring with the caption: "Europe has an Accessibility act? Why didn't anyone warn me?

Accessibility Meme: Europe has an Accessibility act? Why didn’t anyone warn me?

When laws are passed in the European Union, a long timeline follows, allowing each country to implement its local version. We’ve seen this process with the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which officially passed on June 7, 2019. The EAA will…

The only thing worse than not having an accessibility statement on your website is having one and not acting on its promises

An accessibility statement isn’t just words on a page. Accessibility statements are a commitment to ensuring that everyone can access and use your digital content. When a company publishes an accessibility statement but fails to deliver on its promises, it…

Accessibility is not a problem to be solved. Accessibility is a culture to be built

There is a big focus on disability inclusion and accessibility during National Disability Employment Awareness Month. These organizations need to remember, accessibility is not a problem to be solved. It’s a culture to be built. In building that culture, organizations…

Accessibility is Important we will fix it later

If only I had a nickel for every time I heard about this happening (alt: Phoebe and Joey from Friends where Phoebe is repeating one word at a time, Joey is repeating it back, Phoebe puts it all together in…

You can spend a small amount of money on accessibility and be VERY effective, or a huge amount of money and not make a dent in the backlog

Last week, I introduced the concept that accessibility is a culture to be built, not a problem to be solved. Apparently it resonated with a lot of people because I got thousands of reactions and Krispy Kreme actually include this…

when you can’t expense a stapler, but you can make accessibility decisions that cost your company hundreds of thousands of dollars

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether the decision to be inaccessible, was made deliberately or by accident. The legal costs, rework, and opportunity costs can be astronomical. Alt: Fry from Futurama “shut up and take my…

I don’t always test accessibility, but when I do, I only test with screen readers

The majority of the WCAG guidelines have to do with vision loss. That doesn’t mean that vision loss is the only thing that accessibility teams should be focused on. It means that it’s extremely difficult to take some thing that…

How do we Make our Products Accessible?

If only board room discussions about accessibility happened like they did in this meme. Alt: boardroom meeting suggestion meme. Cartoon man at the head of the table screams “how do we make our products more accessible?” Flunky number one says…

Only You can Prevent Inaccessible Code

Too many immature companies think accessibility is the accessibility team’s job. That results in compliance oriented accessibility. In fact, mature companies view accessibility as EVERYONE’s job. That’s how you get culture change. #AccessibilityMemeMomday #accessibility #inclusion #disability #diversity

Month: November 2024