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> Most software developers think about getting their software to work correctly, not about edge-cases dealing with the UI for tiny, specific disenfranchised gro
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
> Most software developers think about getting their software to work correctly, not about edge-cases dealing with the UI for tiny, specific disenfranchised groups of people.
The whole point of the ADA (and its counterparts in some other developed nations), is that building solutions that are also usable by people with disabilities should no longer be an edge case, but the default.
- AndrewUnmuted 7y agoI agree, that > building solutions that are also usable by people with disabilities should no longer be an edge case, but the default. should be the thing we pursue. This will happen when people who care about assistive access technologies finally make solutions that are easy to implement into normal contemporary software development workflow. Online video had the same challenges but due to corporate and commercial interests we solved that problem already, arguably a much harder problem to solve than assistive access. I know because for many years I worked on precisely these kinds of assistive access concerns in the audiobooks industry. I am certain that we are not there yet, but we will get there one day. BUT... > The whole point of the ADA None of this is the point of the ADA. The only "whole point" of the ADA is to regulate particular aspects to certain commercial and government services/products.