Sometimes I read a post and have a need to add some personal views of mine. This time it’s a short list that came to my mind about being an accessibility specialist.
Tag: Awareness
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Less than a month before EAA start and some organizations still wait with accessibility activities. It is not too late. Stay calm, but make sure you are preparing. It is about process improvement, not perfection.
I love GAAD and sharing and learning about practical and theoretical knowledge about accessibility and disabilities. But I also agree that awareness alone is not enough.
2025 is the year of European Accessibility Act. But we can establish that it will help with global accessibility, not only European.
Personal reflection about my encounter with web and accessibility, how I was ignorant of it as well and how I think we can’t be ignorant any more.
Shifting left, that is considering accessibility earliest possible, should be a concept in our school system as well. Basics of accessibility thought earlier in our lives is probably the only sustainable way to make our societies more inclusive and our products and services more accessible.
After giving a talk about accessibility and discussing the lack of awareness I decided to reflect on some thoughts in this post.
How come Web Content Accessibility Guidelines still surprise some people? They are not something new. They are extremely important. Maybe some of reasons lie in education, missing role models, ignorance of awards and maybe even in the open source itself. Some thoughts of mine that try to reflect about this.
Let’s try to spread the good word about inclusion and equality on the web. I’ve tried to do my part too.