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Why Web Accessibility for the Disabled Makes Sense for Everyone
At a speech to the Internet Innovation Alliance, an organization that promotes broadband accessibility, O’Rielly said people “can and do” live without Internet access. “Instead,” he offered, “the term necessity should be reserved to those items that humans cannot live without such as food, shelter, and water.”
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I am actually convinced that people with disabilities of certain types might need the internet MORE than non-disabled folks.
For the record, I am biased. I am blind. I was pretty visually impaired most of my life and lost the rest of my vision as an adult. The internet is challenging, but doable. However, all of the things I use to use the internet I found when I was partly sighted or through friends with sight because it is a nightmare to just randomly search the web blind. I can do it. Google is accessible, but you never know about the sites you are going on being friendly or not until you are there.