There are so many ways that *we* erect barriers and create disability.
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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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
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To that end: noti.st/aarongustafson/nqpS6…
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As a thought argument it would be fun to debate whether it's really true that the web is a necessity if it is for whom? Maslow's laws of basic need yeah necessary but the web? Not even. 3.5 billion of 7. 9 billion humans are not online. At all. It isn't a need. Is it a benefit?
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it's been made a need because it gates access to government services in many locations; try ordering a covid test in the UK or filing taxes without access to the web
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It feels as if it is a need it is definitely an incredible benefit in situations such as you're describing but if half of the human population can survive without it the threshold of literal need. But a compelling question now is do we want this to be a need I sure don't.
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the underlying need is information and access; we're using web to deliver it rather than paper, much like electric light rather than lanterns and candles
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That's a good one there are some really funny stories I can remember of first sightings of early weird places to see urls I should make it a top question for fun too distract people from World awful 2 remembering World Wide Wonder.
Mar 1, 2022 · 5:56 AM UTC
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