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.
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.
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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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The accessibility phone number is very good and the people who man it are kind and helpful. Though you used to have to press 1 to verify you were using it for accessibility issues. Pretty hard for someone with a movement disorder. They no longer require that.
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Okay now I'm growling again. There is a certain issue that we have to face with the concept of universality. We used to talk about Universal Design as being ideal. It's definitely highly improbable and likely impossible to reach 100% access but a vast majority is reachable!
Apr 21, 2022 · 4:08 PM UTC
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