If somebody can use it, somebody can misuse it

Software development and the “doctrine of foreseeable misuse.”

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readFeb 4, 2021

--

Code on a white monitor showing how an authentication error is handled in software
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Authors note: Because of Medium’s refusal to address its accessibility issues for both authors and readers, I’ve moved my last three years of blogs to Substack. Please sign up there for notices of all new articles. Also, I will be updating older articles (like this one) and the…

--

--

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.