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Sign-in and password flows remain a neglected weak point in UK accessibility work, from council portals to retail accounts. WCAG 2.2 raises the standard, but passkeys and authentication design need careful handling if they are to include rather than exclude.
Accessibility overlays promise quick compliance, but UK organisations need to ask what such tools actually detect, what they hide, and who carries the risk when barriers remain. The Equality Act 2010 is not satisfied by a floating toolbar.
For five working days I ran my life through the tab key: banking, council tax, train tickets, the weekly shop. What I found was not a catalogue of exotic failures but a handful of ordinary ones, repeated everywhere — and cheap to fix.
Most UK web teams still assess accessibility through visual QA and automated scans, then wonder why screen reader users struggle. This opinion piece examines the gap between sighted assumptions and assistive technology use, and sets out a practical, low-cost route to testing with blind and low-vision people.