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Technology doesn’t make accessibility hard. People who don’t care do.

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
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10 min readJan 25, 2021

Zara model wearing green jacket famously worn by Melania Trump. White block graffiti says “I really don’t care do u?”
From: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lady-wears-jacket-visit-immigrant-children-reads-care/story?id=56069005

The people who are allergic to change

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that.

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Written by Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

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

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I wonder if we'd have civil rights laws today if all Martin Luther King did was to make a business case...

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I would wish I could clap a thousand times for this piece. So much of it is obvious to those of us in the field, but most of it goes unsaid. I just worked a year as a front end developer on a major govenrment agency web application that had a…

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We're about to release the fully accessible patient check-in of doxy.me (a telemedicine platform)-now blind users will be able to check in with a screen reader and meet with a doctor, without the stress and danger of making the journey to their…

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