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If you could change one thing about the web right now either as a user or a person who works with it everyday what would it be?
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Even I a big mouth obnoxious woman who won't give it a rest has more dignity than that at least I believe so for I did my very best and I will continue to make the effort as long as I am able no matter what it takes I can't leave a dream so important and so freely gifted.
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The problem I see now is the barrier to entry we wanted to make it easy it should have been declarative not functional l. Is short-term gain so very important that it can override long-term vision. All still exist we can course correct. Laying off your best abusing employees?
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The work done by Vint Cerf, Al Gore and Sir Tim Berners-Lee do you ever think about what it took totake a USA military project, give it to citizens for free, to progress it, to build collaborative open ideals that could be used to better collaborate, communicate not to destroy.
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I had full disability by 21 the web was my entrance into a better world a better life and I was able to travel and so much joy has come from those days but they are limited in time and reality and there are so many people far worse off in this world I fear deeply for them.
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It's a tragedy that something like covid has had to teach us about human isolation and what it can do to a person who is used to social interaction. not totally our fault I know it's partly the lack of education and resources and a desire for short-term profits over humanity.
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Are we software engineers or web developers, who collaborate interoperably, do not worsen a conditiom. assume there's no digital divide. My technology is not privileged .my user needs are noI by üßut close to destruction. This isw the majority of users everywhere
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While we were able to patch our way however difficult it was through the 2000s it's no longer viable for the vast majority online nor is it affordable nor is it van with friendly nor are many of us able to manage Authentication. In fact voice to text is making my condition worse.
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Anything that's obfuscated or what we call an app is a software paradigm or paradigms99⁹o that do not make the world wide web,, they make software. I never did want to be an engineer I wanted to share information, collaborate, have interoperability and accessibility for all.
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Since the 90s I have challenged the status quo web developers who did not want to learn markup as a language as it was irrelevant. I was also told bandwidth is abundant most people have plenty. it's not an economic hardship in most places. I knew it was wrong and yet I let it go.
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Bugs have incredible rules for the most part in our ecosystem. As for software I hate it I never would have signed up for it. I'm bad at it. And usually what I'm bad at comes from lack of knowledge, lack of ability, lack of Interest but usually it's mostly because I'm bored.
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the logical conclusion is that without availability there is no experience therefore accessibility and user experience may be farther apart than we think. Love to know your thoughts in English or French or any language you like 😂 I'm just so out of practice! Always a pleasure!
I'm thinking a little bit meta above the technology and technique I'm thinking of what forms the basis of the concept of what accessibility means the open door the startup key the ease of driving and using the interface can never exist if I can't access it in the first place.
Therefore conceptually not technically applied in good code or approaches to the practice of accessibility of any kind there is language as well as practical, if unavailable it is not accessible. Since the interface is also inside and I can't get in it too would not be accessible
Let's say I want to access my car in order to drive it to the store but I have no key, no glass to break, no way into the car at all. The car is now unavailable to use and thereby is also inaccessible. So I cannot have a user experience of the car if it is literally unavailable.
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Thank you this looks wonderful! Perhaps I am not making myself clear let's take user experience out of the concept and just go with access and accessibility as words not as our technology of discussion. It's a thought challenge not a web specific one now I'll follow up next tweet
I do like the idea that should we get fired there's something much better to follow stop it may not be how or when we might imagine. I cannot prove but believe it is true for you it happens to me more than less these days and that is something for which I am grateful!
Hello dear Elie I hope you are well and I have a little bit of a conceptual challenge for you. Accessibility is not just technical for the web it is synonymous with that content or experience being available. In this instance it's not #a11y alone there is exactly no availability!
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There is no worse problem in accessing the Web for me right now than multiple devices with uninteroperable browsers and OSs due to multi factor authentication using only email or SMS. It's a nightmare. I PROTEST IN THE NAME of #a11y
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