The Planner commissioned this illustration to accompany an article about the lack of accessibility in poorly designed town centres for wheelchair users.
Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:
Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!
[ID: A chart displaying various permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities divided by each sense. Each label is accompanied by an illustration of a person experiencing said condition that would benefit from accommodations. Under “touch”, they are listed in order as “[having] one arm”, “arm injury”, and “new parent”. Under “sight”, they are “blind[ness]”, “cataract”, and “distracted driver”. Under “hearing”, they are “deaf[ness]”, “ear infection”, and “bartender”. Under “speech”, they are “non-verbal”, “laryngitis”, and “heavy accent”. End ID]
subtitle regulations really need to catch up to modern day productions on youtube
when you have big professional companies like bon appetit, or geek & sundry, or microjig, or americas test kitchen, and theyre producing content to put on youtube and other sites, they shouldnt be allowed to rely on auto captioning, or fans captioning it for them
closed captioning regulations had to be implemented for tv and film because otherwise, we just…. didnt get any
and now that they can get away with not doing it on the internet, theyve gone right back to not captioning anything because nobody is making them
those regulations really need to catch up
tl;dr im hard of hearing and im pissed that closed captioning isnt required on videos on the internet
