There are so many ways that *we* erect barriers and create disability.
Molly E. Holzschlag @mholzschlag
28 Feb 2022
Accessibility first. If we cannot access a reference freely available due to location, language, belief, government limitations, literacy, economy and digital divide? That which is between us and that reference is what disables inclusion and fosters exclusion. That is disability.
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Replying to @AaronGustafson
Accessibility is far bigger than the science and practice of making a website compliant to a law or a condition we believe to be human when all humans are conditional. The web, its sites much less applications are useless to anyone who can't get to them even with the best #a11y

Feb 28, 2022 · 7:42 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I could not agree more.
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Replying to @mholzschlag @AaronGustafson
Absolutely, and some are really awful. One of the first things I do when performing an audit is keyboard testing. If that fails miserably I know the rest of the website is going to be rough.
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What's so nutty about this is that it is not an accessibility technology need to make keyboarding Universal it is a far broader need to make key access a requirement. how many freaking hardcore programmers and hackers are off the chart fast and prefer keyboard input? A lot.
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