Re:“We would be willing to set up a $2,500 bounty to impleme...
by DanBC on Monday April 06, 2015 @06:30AM
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> edge case
A large chunk of those edge cases are people with disabilities.
I have colleagues with a variety of learning disabilities. They strongly reject the label "disability".
"Dan, when someone gives me a document that I can't understand, and I tell them that I can't understand it, they often say 'well, of course you dont understand it, you are learnig disabled'. So what they're doing is transferring the blame for the lack of understanding from them to me. It's somehow my problem that I don't understand this document. But here's the thing: it's not my job to understand that document. I don't get paid to understand that document. It is their job to provide information in a meaningful accessible way, and they've failed. In this country they might even have a legal duty to make the information accessible. Or they might be paid from public funds to make the information accessible. I'm not disabled unless you chose to disable me."
This strong challenge echoes what some people with physical disabilities say: "my wheelchair is not the problem. You putting a step in front of your shop is the problem; you holding meetings in inaccessible buildings is the problem."
This kind of styling makes things slower, harder to use, more expensive to build and maintain. Just worse overall. The web would be a better place if people stopped doing it.
A large chunk of those edge cases are people with disabilities.
I have colleagues with a variety of learning disabilities. They strongly reject the label "disability".
"Dan, when someone gives me a document that I can't understand, and I tell them that I can't understand it, they often say 'well, of course you dont understand it, you are learnig disabled'. So what they're doing is transferring the blame for the lack of understanding from them to me. It's somehow my problem that I don't understand this document. But here's the thing: it's not my job to understand that document. I don't get paid to understand that document. It is their job to provide information in a meaningful accessible way, and they've failed. In this country they might even have a legal duty to make the information accessible. Or they might be paid from public funds to make the information accessible. I'm not disabled unless you chose to disable me."
This strong challenge echoes what some people with physical disabilities say: "my wheelchair is not the problem. You putting a step in front of your shop is the problem; you holding meetings in inaccessible buildings is the problem."
This kind of styling makes things slower, harder to use, more expensive to build and maintain. Just worse overall. The web would be a better place if people stopped doing it.