Accessibility is the job. Developers upset they have to build accessible housing is a perfect example of why we need legislation to ensure accessibility is considered. To be clear: accessible design benefits everyone. Inaccessible design is active discrimination. If it's not accessible, the job isn't done. #accessibility #a11y https://lnkd.in/gwgGKH_A
While I more than agree that accessibility is key, I don’t like to convince people by „accessibility is beneficial for everyone/you as well“. That is similar to explaining men, that feminism is also benefiting them. If we always center the ones in power and cater to their needs, we perpetuate the narratives that led to unfair chances and opportunities in the first place.
Matthew C.
4d
Force them to be accessible and green, tax profits at 80%, and remove all tax breaks. Rent seeking is a privilege that provides zero economic benefit and actively harms the economy. It's worse than productive harms caused by actually doing things for profit.
Spot on. ♿️ Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Anna Clason
1d
Word. Developers ARE responsible on two levels of communication. The company (customer) they have built their solutions for often act as if they are in denial towards us (the user). As if we are stupid and nothing could be better.
Emergency Management Specialist / Power Platform Admin at USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
4dAlthough I am aware and agree accessibility in design is important, and tends to leave to more intuitive design focus, it is also accurate that so much focus on the topic of accessibility does hinder development and fairness in the end. When you try to be so inclusive that absolutely nobody is left out you can often forget about the original purpose and by it’s inherent nature be discriminative. Think about someone that is blind, you build a tool that is downright beautiful and accessible to the normal individual and you built in the ability so a screen reader can use it, something that is happening every day. But did you just give them a way to get the information or did you do something that Gave that blind individual a way to still be captivated by the beautiful experience you created for those that can see. That experience is not the same. You can never truly be equal in every way to everyone, but you can be respectful of everyone. Legislation in many cases just makes things more complicated, it is more important to build culutural changes as legislation just allows for those who don’t care to be punished via a fine that they are probably making 10 times what they are charged off the violation so it does nothing to change it.