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I'm just going to be honest and admit that my instinct is that demanding accessibility is too high a barrier. I want to live in a world where a lecturer is abou

I'm just going to be honest and admit that my instinct is that demanding accessibility is too high a barrier. I want to live in a world where a lecturer is about to start a lecture and someone in the class says "hey can I record this it would be cool for others to see" and the lecturer says "sure!" and the simple phone-captured video goes up on the internet for ever. Now if someone can make technology to make that accessible, post-hoc, awesome. And if someone can make it easy for the content to be born accessible, even better! But I do not agree with making accessibility required.

mwcampbell 9y ago
I understand your opinion, but I think I must still disagree with it. I do think accessibility should be required, unless it's just not possible in some situation. And content should be, as you said, born accessible. And not just accessibility for blind people, of course. And here I have to be honest and admit that I haven't lived up to this ideal myself. Several months ago, I gave a presentation to a local Meetup group for software developers on making software accessible to blind people. It's on YouTube. But I haven't yet had it captioned so a deaf person can benefit from it. Nobody's coming after me with a lawsuit in hand. But now that I've thought of this, I should get that video captioned. Or maybe the presentation or lecture itself is an archaic way to share information. You can see it in the word "lecture". It comes from reading, as in reading out loud. But the people who attend today's lectures can read for themselves. Maybe the best way for content to be born accessible is just to stick to electronic text, that everyone can read in their own way and at their own pace.