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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As always, context is key, right?
Example: In Lowes yesterday, I saw they added a quarter-a-cart checkout system (I’m guessing to reduce theft). No quarter = no cart (a situational disability to those us us who no longer carry cash, but need to purchase bulky/heavy things).
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Adli's grocery store has the same thing were you need a quarter to get a cart. I make sure I have two quarters in my back pocket at all times. It's the only change I carry. So if I happen to be going to the store I have one.
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Good ideas all yet you've adapted I wonder about people who have not learned those techniques sometimes asking for things is the hardest thing to do.
Mar 1, 2022 · 9:46 AM UTC
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