Cold take: portraying people as bumbling in infomercials relegates products to meme status that could genuinely provide #accessibility benefits.

That’s setting aside the whole “disability = clown” infomercial problem…

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Apple on inclusion

It’s also essential to avoid assuming that any disability might prevent someone from wanting to use your app. Making an assumption like this can result in designs that limit an app’s potential audience. In contrast, when you focus on making each app experience accessible, you give everyone the opportunity to benefit from your app in ways that work for them.

Source: Inclusion - Technologies - Human Interface Guidelines - Apple Developer by Apple Inc., https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/inclusion/overview

While the whole guide is good, this point is important to me. And it should be important to designers. A disability doesn’t preclude the desire to use your application. Your application precludes my ability to use because of design choices you made.

Everybody wants to find an application to help them work, play, travel, communicate, and more… these are human needs that can be met.

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Embracing remote work is an #accessibility feature. Consider the talent, previously unavailable because going to an office every day took too many spoons, can now get to work anywhere.

Why not make talent acquisition easier?

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This is a better version of that tool. It takes that takes text and… Posts just the text to my blog, Twitter, and FB. Creates a gradient and text overlay for IG. Actually crops it properly before posting.

Oh also handles paragraphs. And emoji. 👍🏻

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My needs aren’t special. I’m not special. You are not special. We are human. #accessibility isn’t about meeting special needs. It’s meeting human needs. That’s how it should be.

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Finding people who use assistive technology isn’t hard.

More often the only thing standing in the way is an organization not wanting to find the discrepancy between what they think is accessible and what it actually is.

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