Re:Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items
by IanCal on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:15AM
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They are simple, they're just disappointing.
It's definitely simpler to completely ignore accessibility. It's also a bad thing.
It's easier to not put a ramp at my shop, after all there aren't that many people in wheelchairs. It's easier to not add induction loops to help those with hearing aids, after all there aren't that many people with them.
We can keep going with this logic. Facial recognition only works with white faces? But most of my users are white, let's just keep it.
It's easier to exclude people. Across society, that ends up pretty poorly, particularly when it's the same groups that are excluded time and time again.
> What's the incentive?
It would be nice if making the content work for people with accessibility requirements was a reward in itself, but this is why we end up with laws, to make not doing these things a punishable offence so that in the end it's easier to actually do them.
It's definitely simpler to completely ignore accessibility. It's also a bad thing.
It's easier to not put a ramp at my shop, after all there aren't that many people in wheelchairs. It's easier to not add induction loops to help those with hearing aids, after all there aren't that many people with them.
We can keep going with this logic. Facial recognition only works with white faces? But most of my users are white, let's just keep it.
It's easier to exclude people. Across society, that ends up pretty poorly, particularly when it's the same groups that are excluded time and time again.
> What's the incentive?
It would be nice if making the content work for people with accessibility requirements was a reward in itself, but this is why we end up with laws, to make not doing these things a punishable offence so that in the end it's easier to actually do them.