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This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga

In case you forgot what was going on (it’s been a while) here is the procedural history so far: 2015 — NAD files lawsuit for Harvard’s failure to provide close captioning 2016 — Court denied Harvard’s motion to stay / dismiss based on jurisdiction 2016 — NAD…

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Ten Behaviors that Require no Talent

Being on Time / Being Prepared Timing and preparation are a huge components in being successful at accessibility. If you start your accessibility work at the design stage, you are only slightly late. All of your project independent accessibility preparation such…

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Running Accessible Meetings and Events

A primer to make the lives of participants with disabilities better. As someone in technology with a long-standing mobility problem, I have been to a LOT of meetings. Looking just from the perspective of access, most of them have been…

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People with Disabilities — Big Brother Wants to Watch You

You know you are a society in turmoil when there is so much bad news in the political world that this New York Times headline got completely overlooked in the other chaos in New Zealand and with Manafort and Mueller:…

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Digital Accessibility Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Creating a metrics oriented hierarchy for tracking accessibility progress If you don’t know what an OKR is or why it is important to have them, please read this article first. If you are only going to skim it or don’t have time,…

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Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk

Wait, I can get sued for using Wix and GoDaddy?? What the Actual Heck?!?! Why yes. Yes, you can. In a heart beat. Here is a little background on how this story came into being. I’ve recently spent an absolutely mind…

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“Hello, Sir”

How one thoughtless word can destroy a potential vendor relationship or cost you a job or hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have been in tech a really, really, really long time. I’ve reached the tipping point where frequently I’ve…

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Accessible Social Media

Including, not excluding, people with disabilities from social media platforms is not hard. But it does require attention to detail Social media is a very popular tool among people with disabilities to stay connected despite the fact that most social…

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The True Cost of Disability

In the middle of a stream of accessibility conferences, I have given a lot of thought over the past two weeks about what it means to be disabled. When I was a young child, I didn’t understand that I was…

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Accessibility Checklists — Just say No

I am a Accessibility Manager with 15 years of experience. No more general A11Y Checklists, PLEASE !!! There are so many articles touting themselves as general “accessibility checklists” that I’ve literally lost track. Even respected organizations like W3Cand WebAIM have published them. WCAG 2.1…

Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog

This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga

Ten Behaviors that Require no Talent

Running Accessible Meetings and Events

Digital Accessibility Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk

“Hello, Sir”

The True Cost of Disability

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