Why accessibility overlays hurt more than help

Denis Boudreau
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readMay 31, 2021

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Do you still believe that the greatest threat to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the digital space is the lack of awareness from designers who think they understand what inclusive design means? The general apathy of developers who can’t be bothered to make their code keyboard accessible? Or the sheer complexity of the international accessibility guidelines that have become so dense over the years…

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