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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.  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

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idea of sharing information and if you

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can't share information or if some people

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can't see it , 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 thatby 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 being...focusing on the 80% case.

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Focusing on how do we make every 4 out of

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every 5 of our users happy. How do we

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build things for those group of people,

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because the last 20% is always hard. But I

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say that the web is for 100%. It's for

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everybody, which is what Tim Burners-Lee

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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

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also just the sort of,  the notion of

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of having everybody's contributions to the

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sort of...the knowledge.

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Big challenge is, to escape your own

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viewpoint. And to not make the assumption

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that everyone sees the web the way you see

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it