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20 years of the ADA: Accessibility good and bad
Two links today which were both partially inspired by the 20 year anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
First, the depressing one: Via Jennison Mark Asuncion, Dennis Lembree identifies several accessibility gaps on the home page of the new section508.gov web site. The site was launched partially in celebration of the 20 year anniversary of the ADA, and some of the accessibility gaps Lembree finds are whoppers: overly styled text instead of heading tags, for example. As Jennison said,
But let's follow with a much more inspiring post:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jesse_the_k: "20 Years and a Day for the Americans with Disabilities Act". This essay inspires me to see all the good we've done in two decades. From jesse_the_k:
And something I don't say very often, because I'm still pissed off about certain comments about atheism, But thanks, George H. W. Bush, for signing the ADA into law. Because of that law, I have a job.
First, the depressing one: Via Jennison Mark Asuncion, Dennis Lembree identifies several accessibility gaps on the home page of the new section508.gov web site. The site was launched partially in celebration of the 20 year anniversary of the ADA, and some of the accessibility gaps Lembree finds are whoppers: overly styled text instead of heading tags, for example. As Jennison said,
what does it say when the chief US gov agency promoting IT
accessibility is not where it needs to be with their own site?
But let's follow with a much more inspiring post:
jesse_the_k: "20 Years and a Day for the Americans with Disabilities Act". This essay inspires me to see all the good we've done in two decades. From jesse_the_k: So, thanks for my life, ADA: many mundane things, and a few great big ones.
The law is not enough; as Cal Montgomery taught me:
Discrimination is always illegal; only activism makes it unwise.
And something I don't say very often, because I'm still pissed off about certain comments about atheism, But thanks, George H. W. Bush, for signing the ADA into law. Because of that law, I have a job.