Accessibility is recognized as a cybersecurity priority, yet when is the problem going to be fixed?

I know I’m a day behind because I was gone yesterday, so don’t mind me trying to catch up.

I wrote in 2020 a blog post asking if Antivirus was dead.

here is that blog post.

It talks about the major companies and the fact we can’t use them. I would like to thank Malwarebytes for being accessible, but we definitely need more.

Some time within the last month, I got a call from Trend Micro. I was once a customer of theirs, and I raised the concerns I had. They mentioned that I was a lead of theirs, yet I’ve attended webinars by them.

With that said, we had a great discussion and he was a lead developer.

Way back in 2017, I also wrote concerns about Antivirus and the disabled computer user.

blog post here

In it, I was asking for software that could be used and I was liked to Sophos home which I never did install. I’m not against paid software, but I didn’tt seem to use it even though I downloaded it.

I also was recommended Malware Bytes by several people. But this goes past software for AntiVirus. Software is declining in accessibility, not just for blind and visually impaired but for all disabilities.

Speaking of defender, we know that it recently went rogue but software does come with bugs that need to be fixed.

With that said, I saw an article that could be a nice start talking about cybersecurity being a priority. Are we sure about this?

I’m glad the U.K. is leading the way with what this article is saying, but I’ve been sounding the alarm for years. I wonder what exactly changed to get a country to put a leg up and say that this is not acceptible?

The article is titled Accessibility is Officially Recognized as a Cybersecurity Priority and I urge everyone to give this a ready read.

Let me know what you think and let me know how we should proceed. I’m curious on how we can get a leg up too. If people who are in this industry can’t use their software because they become disabled, is that what it is going to take for this community to wake up and fix it?

Please sound off on TSB’s list or even in the comments on the blog.

Your thoughts are welcome!