Accessibility

It is a systematic civil-rights failure that has now found its way into software as a whole, through lightning-fast adoption of AI systems that are trained on over 20 years of institutional barriers.

After years and years of successive abstractions, we have prioritised the comfort of the person writing the code over the survival and agency of the people using it. Innovation that excludes people isn’t innovation; it’s just shiny exclusion.

I’d feel better if the CSSWG did a better job of outlining risks and best practices, at least beyond stale WCAG links and suggestions that user style sheets are the best approach to get around forcing animations on users. Granted, the CSSWG had shown a certain amount of ignoring the Priority of Constituencies of late, so I’m also not terribly surprised.

Empowering humans to communicate in a more accessible way prevents the problem at its source, avoiding the need to rely on expensive, unreliable machines to try and patch it in real-time afterwards.

The first thing I noticed when reading his piece is that how he experienced the term is different from how I have. Which means we’re off to a good start. 😃