{"id":104,"date":"2020-07-06T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/?p=104"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:24:21","slug":"accessibility-is-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/2020\/07\/accessibility-is-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility is democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not to get too political here, but please allow me to just use the words of a great man to begin with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time&#8230;<\/p><cite>Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; back to my title that draws my thesis. I did not first search for it on the internet, although it is probably out there already. But I was just thinking that humanity seems to be progressing to a very technical world. This is now even more obvious with global war humans versus virus &#8211; that has made technology even more important in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I must say that I love the progress that is visible around the world. Even distant parts of the world riding the internet surf and being connected and informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Accessibility should be an integral part of content for humans. Otherwise people are left out. Nobody should be left out!<\/p><cite>me, reflecting on inclusion <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why accessibility should be an integral part of everything we make for the public. And if I can dare to foresee a future just a bit &#8211; if \/ when our democracy will evolve to a point where all can co-decide with their votes, with a fair electronic system that is impossible to manipulate (maybe Blockchain v.2050), then accessibility will be a absolute essential part of the whole democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But first we must all win and prevail over micro-organisms, it seems.<br>And get over macro-divisions that we unfortunately still suffer with, even in year 2020 (it&#8217;s high time to drop the importance of different melanin values between races, OK ?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When more and more services move online, then they must be accessible, otherwise they exclude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-principles","tag-democracy","tag-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}