Make Accessibility Great Again

Politics, beliefs, biases, or agendas, whether mine or anyone else’s, have nothing to do with my efforts to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. I will not allow any of those to interfere with my accessibility work.

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Accessibility for people with disabilities is the only non-partisan issue. Like everything they touch, it’s been systematically ruined by Silicon Valley progressives. You can put a stop to that, not least by taking the Neutrality Pledge for Accessibility Workers.

Digital accessibility means the practice of making anything resembling a computer, and any kind of software, usable to persons with disabilities. There’s certainly enough attention being paid now to accessibility of apps, smartphones, tablets, debit terminals, bank machines, TV set-top boxes, and the like that “classic” Web accessibility – making Web sites accessible – has become only one of many flavours of digital accessibility. Since I’m not talking here about architectural access (level entrances, automatic doors), and won’t be talking much about transportation, whenever I talk about accessibility I mean digital accessibility.

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