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I'm glad to hear that at least that's movement pun intended in the right direction for people who have Mobility impairments. I have a cyclical throughout the day problem with my hands because I use them to type play guitar and piano and voice input is needed at times. It sucks.
There's also a long-standing pre-web concept, "TAB" or "Temporarily Able Bodied." We used to use this on the GEnie Disability Roundtable. All humans will experience physical limitations. Broken finger to severe ALS, we all require access. ACCESSIBILITY FIRST FTW! :)
Kylie, the difficult answer is Yes. Good news: More accessibility awareness due to advocacy including lawsuits over the Web's life. Bad news: Human bias is extremely limiting and exists in all of us. We are able. Not unable. Humans are subject to conditions, full stop!
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This also has proven very difficult to do for three decades now :( One suggestion I have is to nver,n celvuer discuss the profession with stakeholders beyond iterative open front end development, real user testing and other rigorous quality assurance practices. :)
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It's not only cheaper than a lawsuit it's quality assurance. I have often thought we should just drop the term all together it is not a separate practice in web design and development it is the practice of web design and development. We need better process and education for sure
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There always has been a mission-critical return on investments for websites. That is that people can be empowered using the web if it can be accessed, understood, searched, meaningful. Accessibility is the on-ramp to the web. Can't get to content? That's not the web.
It's frustrating but I admire your persistence! halfway through my current book it's an integrated approach not a technical how to which advocates accessibility first no accessibility? No user experience LOL. Covering same in a in Austin in May. Check @knowbility for details. 😊
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May I ask where you teach your classes? it sounds like you are doing exactly what needs doing and what exactly is not being done! so thank you very much and if I can be of help please don't hesitate to ask I'll do my best!
My philosophical take on this is that all people are disabled. Disability means apart from ability or no ability. We all have conditions that keep us apart from an ability or we lack and ability it's just being human it is not a failing except for the people who think it is. 😊
That was sarcasm LOL! I'm into Neuroscience. I'll give your podcast a go. I am no clinician but self-paced study doctoral level education in computational neuroscience. Psychology and Psychiatry has been with me for 48 of my 59 years and has failed mostly especially with medicine
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Hi Ollie I'm happy I could explain more clearly. It appears the majority of humanity judges others by exclusion not inclusion. I'm working on this topic in my current book on Accessibility. I cover a lot about cognitive bias. It's a real help to talk about this thank you so much!
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No thank you not every developer has to have what you have why do you think that I'm not being facetious so I'm really wondering. I give my work to my clients not packable platform
Yes. But to your point I don't have to get into a car and drive it in order to be upset with other people's driving.
My personal preference is to respect every single specification because it's an evolutionary technology and if we didn't respect what came before how could we have ever figured out what would come next and what will come in the future?
Painters house never has fresh paint. Cobblers children I have no shoes. Today's developers prefer no code programming. I have no idea what that means semantically but wow that's some great market up there huh LOL
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That's true. But this is semantics and words have many meanings many roots and sometimes different meanings in different routes from different languages and that's simple linguistics. Try this the golf course is so exclusive that they don't allow women in.
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LOL I just had to have that come back I have worked for myself for most of my career and have had very few employers and of the few I had I really only liked one
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I think you mean there's always at least one that might actually get it there countless. Never do never care to and aren't smart enough to understand multiple layers of humor and irony. I call them under thinkers