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This resource introduces how disabled people use the web, including people with age-related impairments. It helps developers, designers, content creators, and others understand the reasons behind creating accessible digital products — including websites, apps, browsers, and other web tools.

I figured this might be worth sharing here. A practical guide from the Web Accessibility Initiative over at the W3C. A bit more friendly than technical standards like WCAG.

The Stories of Web Users section has lots of real-life examples and personal testimonials about how people struggle with day-to-day tasks.

I strongly recommend every person involved with the Web to go read that. It's pretty short and easily readable, but it's packed with real tips and stuff you might not have thought about.

"In the months since the escalation of the genocide of Gaza began, many U.S. disability rights organizations have continued to foster financial and collaborative relationships with companies that profit from the oppression and genocide of Palestinians. Several disability rights organizations, which advocate for equal rights and treatment for disabled Americans, accept funding and have fostered partnerships with major war profiteers and weapons manufacturers including Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen, Boeing, RTX/Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Motors, and Google. These companies manufacture and profit from the weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and technology that Israel is using to wage its genocidal campaign to kill and maim as many Palestinians as possible. The United Nations has called on weapons manufacturers to cease the sale and transfer of weapons to Israel or risk being complicit in violations of international human rights laws. We cannot build a movement for disability equality on funding that comes from the genocide of our disabled peers in Palestine and elsewhere in the Global South."

This resource introduces how disabled people use the web, including people with age-related impairments. It helps developers, designers, content creators, and others understand the reasons behind creating accessible digital products — including websites, apps, browsers, and other web tools.

I figured this might be worth sharing here. A practical guide from the Web Accessibility Initiative over at the W3C. A bit more friendly than technical standards like WCAG.

not that this post needs it, but just a little plus one here from me, with the added context of a bit of history that hopefully we all know:

the 504 sit in would simply not have been possible without the solidarity and assistance of the Black Panther Party. that kind of solidarity is what allows us to make real, lasting change, and it must be maintained, constantly, both ways. disability activism, advocating for accessibility, must come hand-in-hand with racial justice, uplifting the voices of people of color, and reckoning with the mistreatment of racial minority groups in the social circles we participate in. this has not been done here on cohost. we need to do the work to fix this.