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> Not all of them can: that's why accessibility is important. No, that’s why education is important. If they can’t read, that’s a failure of education; fix it
by catiopatio 4y ago
> Not all of them can: that's why accessibility is important.
No, that’s why education is important.
If they can’t read, that’s a failure of education; fix it there.
That’s a lot cheaper and more effective than trying to force the entire world to publish sign-language gif pop-ups as an accessibility measure on their written documents.
- richbell 4y ago> No, that’s why education is important. > If they can’t read, that’s a failure of education; fix it there. You can tackle more than one thing at a time. Improving the education system doesn't necessarily help older generations, for example.
- prepend 4y agoThe education system shouldn’t only serve children and is part of a lifelong process. My community has many education and training programs for people of all ages. Even ones targeted at helping retirement age seniors read. I don’t think it’s a good idea to incorrectly assume that the education system only serves kids.
- richbell 4y ago> The education system shouldn’t only serve children and is part of a lifelong process. I agree. Unfortunately, in many places it barely serves children, let alone the rest of the community. But this is tangential to my original point, which is that reasonable accommodations are good and that you can improve accessibility and education at the same time.