IT Accessibility: What Web Developers Have to Say

The web is about information accessibility

It's really a basic human freedom that we

are just really beginning to talk about in

the last decade. Ah it's important

therefore that everybody have this freedom

any freedom that's only allocated to a few

is not really a freedom.

The web is about information and it's

important that people can access the

information that they need in order to

complete a workflow or get their job done

finish a task.

I think the web should be accessible to

everyone all the time. I grew up with it

being easily accessible to me. It's how

I learnt information easily. I can't

imagine someone not being able to just

google something instantly, and getting

what they need.

I think websites should be accessible

because the web is founded kinda on this idea of

sharing information and if you can't share

information or if some people can't see it

then it's not truly being shared.

We all have different abilities and

disabilities, and if we're all going to be

able to get the same content and interpret

it in a somewhat similar fashion, it has

to be given to us in that way and

accessible so that we can actually reach

it

Accessibility is important for a number of

reasons. For one, there are laws that

apply. Another is, it can relate to our

reputation. And a third is that by paying

attention to it, we create a more

inclusive educational environment.

I think we are really good as developers

at focusing on the 80% case. Focusing on

how do we make every 4 out of every 5 of

of our users happy. How do we build things

for those group of people, because the

last 20% is always hard. But I say that

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

Which is what Tim Burners-Lee said.

I'm definitely am very moved by this

notion of inclusiveness. I mean I think

that for me it's a part of who I

this is important to me. But there's also

just the sort of, the notion of having

everybody's contributions to the knowledge.