Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

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A proposed amendment to Betteridge's law of headlines for the digital accessibility space: any headline asserting something is accessible is wrong. The post argues that absolute accessibility claims are inherently false, since you can't make something accessible to everyone. It also warns that many such claims come from corporate marketing designed to sell accessibility products rather than genuinely help users, linking to a long list of prior posts debunking specific tools and vendors.

Accessibility Law of Headlines