Cybersecurity safeguards often aren’t designed with people who have impairments in mind, but websites and designers can be more inclusive. Anybody who is online is advised (and often admonished) to practice good cybersecurity hygiene as a way to protect their information from would-be thieves. What about the people who for physical or cognitive or financial reasons are unable to follow the basic rules of cybersecurity? In short, these people are often out of luck. And the result is that they face an impossible choice: They can either be excluded from essential private and public services or become easy prey to cybercriminals.

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