3 ms·
A few thoughts, somewhat orthogonal to each other: 1) Disability rights are often portrayed as a special privilege for a subgroup of society. But in reality, a
by microtherion 10y ago
A few thoughts, somewhat orthogonal to each other:
1) Disability rights are often portrayed as a special privilege for a subgroup of society. But in reality, all of us start our lives mobility impaired and illiterate, and many of us who are lucky enough to grow old become sight, hearing, and mobility impaired to some extent. Accessibility helps all of us.
2) Accessibility helps not just humans. High quality captions add a lot of value to videos, because they make the videos searchable, which provides immense benefits to all users, hearing impaired or not.
3) Disability rights are the one aspect of social policies where the USA might be ahead of much of the rest of the world. Compared to my native Switzerland, the USA is far ahead in empowering disabled individuals to participate in public life. This is something the US should be proud of.