Accessibility and Availability
An interesting opinion from Derek Featherstone over at Box of Chocolates on the topic of what is accessibility. Joe Clark’s latest ALA article on PDF accessibility, provides the contention:
The goal of the accessibility advocate is to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, period.
Tommy Olsson disagrees and believes it is about making the web accessible to all, regardless of (dis)ability or device.
I’m in the same camp as Tommy but Derek left, went to Joe and is now on the fence supporting both sides. I always pride myself on being able to understand all points of view too so Derek’s current thinking is agreeable with me too. So it’s up there on the fence for me too. It’s big and sturdy enough for us all.