Accessibility is availability. I fully believe it has nothing to do with human realities. Disability literally means apart from ability. Who here has all abilities? The practice of Web #a11y technically helps everyone. We use the word inclusion. Exclusion is the true disability.
Rachele DiTullio @RacheleDiTullio
20 Apr 2022
Replying to @mholzschlag
Accessibility is how well disabled people can use something. It’s a spectrum from more accessible to less accessible, with the goal to be as inclusive as possible.

Apr 20, 2022 · 2:13 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
It’s interesting that Apple has an accessibility phone number to help people only with items on the accessibility menu in settings. If you use other features like keyboard dictation for your disability they are not allowed to help you. Apple does not understand accessibility.
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Apple doesn't understand how to properly support people using accessibility features would be my rewrite of that because they do have a long history of being accessibility aware in general not perfect but in general
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Replying to @mholzschlag
So do you think this means that a far greater percentage of accessibility budgets should go towards good translation? It seems that by putting something in Chinese we make it available to vastly more people than if we add the right ARIA markup for a custom control somewhere.
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Internationalisation, globalization, localization, the technical issues of accessibility among others including the digital divide and governmental mucking about with a recognized Global Internet as part human rights all factor in if you can't get there it's not accessible.
Replying to @mholzschlag
Wishing “exclusive” wasn’t already taken.
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How so exactly? Exclusive works. Those people over there considering themselves more exclusive and those of us with serious conditions that make life more difficult for us. Or did you mean something else? Thanks
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