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The reason I fell in love with the web was the democratisation of information. I love that so many people can access, learn, and share such a huge variety of resources. That’s why I’ve always considered accessibility so important. To me, access for all is an essential part of the nature of the web.
How I learned accessibility
When I started to learn about web design and development, I learned from great books like Dan Cederholm’s Web Standards Solutions. Web Standards Solutions continually referred back to why the different markup solutions suggested would be better or worse for accessibility. That’s how I learned that accessibility was important, part of a developer’s everyday work and not so hard to achieve.
Modern web development and accessibility
Nowadays when developers talk about modern web development techniques, they most often mention the impact they may have on web performance. Considering performance during each step of a project makes sense as bandwidth and battery life are uncertain commodities. However, I’d really like the community to start talking (again) about accessibility in the same way they talk about web performance. We need to change the minds of people who think that accessibility doesn’t make business sense, and I want the web to be a better place to visit for a wider range of people.
I’ve written this little post as part of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Thanks to Neil Milliken and his fantastic post on designing for accessibility for the heads-up. If you want to find out more about accessibility, there’s a 24 hour Inclusive Design community conference happening online right now (Thanks to Bruce Lawson for tweeting so much about it!)
I also run a Twitter account that shares all the best accessibility resources that I find, it’s called @newtoa11y.
Read the original post, 'Why accessibility matters to me #GAAD'.
This content originally appeared on Laura Kalbag’s Blog Posts and was authored by Laura Kalbag
Laura Kalbag | Sciencx (2014-05-15T10:14:06+00:00) Why accessibility matters to me #GAAD. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2014/05/15/why-accessibility-matters-to-me-gaad/
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