Designing for All: Essential Accessibility Framework from Microsoft - Design Tool Tuesday

[@vaexperience]

What did you take away from this video?

[@stxrryd]

Thank you for making this video. As a wheelchair I can't count how many times I've had people debate accessibility with me claiming that "companies just can't market to everyone" and making up hypothetical scenarios such as "sports companies can't be accessible". 90% of the time, no one is even remotely arguing about sports vs. disability. No one is arguing about making every single thing accessible for every single individual disabled person. It's about putting in effort to make things as accessible to everyone as possible, not about being perfect. As the saying goes, "Not everyone can use the stairs, but anyone can use a ramp". Everyone becomes disabled at some point in their life, even if its temporary-- old age, a tragic accident, illness, pregnancy, etc.. It's not as rare as people really think it is. Being a company, you should seek to retain your customers that go through all phases of their lives. Many of your customers are disabled. Many more will become disabled, just like you. Think about that.

[@iclonethefirst]

My old company didn't give a second thought about Accessiblity. We were making an app for a business costumer, quite a male dominant sector. There was one element which they wanted to color with "green" and "red". I said we should rethink this because since this a male dominant area, there a probably quite a few people which suffer from green/red blindness. They response was like "nah, that isn't too important" and went on with their talk. I was really furious about this

[@goroh83]

Agree with everything, but selling the value behind addressing accessibility is a challenge on its own. The lack of, or low, awareness is still quite significant and in the world of 'agile' and 'moving fast and breaking things' addressing accessibility is simply not a thing, for the most part...

[@vaexperience]

This is going to become more pressing. Most industries and regions cannot be exclussive anymore, so it will catchup. That shouldn't change how you approach it - it's the right thing to fight for.

[@goroh83]

I hope you're right, but not so sure. Seeing all those startups (or 'startups') that save $ on not having a designer involved in early stage doesn't give me much hope that they will start hiring a11y experts and/or designers who have some knowledge and on top of that get devs who can write semantic and accessible code. @@vaexperience

[@saifi_1.1.2]

Being a completely healthy person and still using some of the accessibility features in many situations, i can say that learning accessible design if isn't worth a lot in the majority of the industry right now but is future proof as this will be regulated over time.