So You’ve Been Publicly Accessibility-Shamed

While tech often deflects on issues of ethics, accessibility faces that responsibility head on. To put it another way, accessibility is design and development with a built-in moral compass. So if an accessibility expert comes across as an asshole, I now assume it’s saltiness built up from years of exhaustion answering the same bullshit questions over and over like “Do blind people really matter?”… Ugh.

“Why can’t I just make cool shit?” is certainly a vibe and if you’re making it for you and your friends… sure? But when you have influence in an ecosystem, Spider-man style “great responsibility” starts coming into play. As cool as any technology may be, we need to be sure we’re not rapidly generating inequality at scale.