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The web is about information accessibility

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It's really a basic human freedom that we

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are just really beginning to talk about in

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the last decade. Ah it's important

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therefore that everybody have this freedom

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any freedom that's only allocated to a few

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is not really a freedom.

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The web is about information and it's

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important that people can access the

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information that they need in order to

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complete a workflow or get their job done

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finish a task.

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I think the web should be accessible to

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everyone all the time. I grew up with it

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being easily accessible to me. It's how

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I learnt information easily. I can't

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imagine someone not being able to just

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google something instantly, and getting

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what they need.

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I think websites should be accessible

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because the web is founded kinda on this idea of

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sharing information and if you can't share

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information or if some people can't see it

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then it's not truly being shared.

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We all have different abilities and

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disabilities, and if we're all going to be

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able to get the same content and interpret

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it in a somewhat similar fashion, it has

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to be given to us in that way and

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accessible so that we can actually reach

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it

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Accessibility is important for a number of

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reasons. For one, there are laws that

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apply. Another is, it can relate to our

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reputation. And a third is that by paying

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attention to it, we create a more

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inclusive educational environment.

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I think we are really good as developers

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at focusing on the 80% case. Focusing on

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how do we make every 4 out of every 5 of

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of our users happy. How do we build things

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for those group of people, because the

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last 20% is always hard. But I say that

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the web is for 100%. It's for everybody.

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Which is what Tim Burners-Lee said.

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I'm definitely am very moved by this

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notion of inclusiveness. I mean I think

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that for me it's a part of who I

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this is important to me. But there's also

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just the sort of, the notion of having

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everybody's contributions to the knowledge.