Sheri Byrne-Haber

Sheri Byrne-Haber is a Canadian-American global subject matter expert in disability and accessibility. She focuses primarily on accessibility of technology.

Education
Byrne-Haber has degrees in computer science, law, and business. She is a CPACC certified accessibility professional and has worked in the disability and accessibility field for almost two decades.

Professional career
Beginning in the 2000s, Byrne-Haber worked as an attorney, focusing primarily on cases where the rights of d/Deaf people were infringed upon. In 2012, she decided to pivot from working as a lawyer to pursue a career in accessibility.

Byrne-Haber co-wrote the Digital Accessibility Maturity Model, and is the founder of the VMware accessibility program. From 2019 to 2024, she was a Senior Staff Accessibility Architect at VMware. She was an early adopter of Machine Learning and Generative AI accessibility applications.

Byrne-Haber is a globally recognized professional in the subjects of accessibility and disability in the workplace and classroom.

She initiated digital accessibility projects in Fortune 200 firms, including VMware, McDonald's, and Albertsons.

Recognition
Byrne-Haber was named 2020 Author of the Year by Medium's largest publication, the UX Collective.

She was named a LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact for 2022.

Archery
Byrne-Haber began practicing wheelchair archery in late 2019.

In 2023, She won World Cup Stage #3 compound women's open at Chula Vista, California.

Byrne-Haber won her flight at "The Vegas Shoot" in 2023, beating 31 non-disabled competitors

Volunteer work

 * Current IAAP Global Leadership Council member


 * Former member of ITI Accessibility subgroup


 * Co-lead of the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model subgroup

As an author

 * Hear for Life: Dr Joe's Guide to Your Child's Hearing Loss


 * Giving a Damn about accessibility

Personal life
Byrne-Haber uses a wheelchair and has Type 1 diabetes.

Byrne-Haber has a deaf daughter.