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From: Karl Groves
Date: Sep 6, 2014 8:13PM

"do web accessibility professionals have a sense of humour?"

It appears not.

Sad, really.

Denis Boudreau recently asked "A question for y'all this morning: why
do you think people feel that web accessibility is so hard?"
(https://twitter.com/dboudreau/status/508275085942464512)

Here's why I think it is so hard: because accessibility people expect
perfection and they're so willing to name and shame people who aren't
perfect. Accessibility people are constantly fighting among each
other and looking for stuff to complain about.

Bryan tried posting something humorous. Yeah, it was off-topic for the
mailing list, but who cares? I'd rather see humor on WAI-IG than
another idiotic debate about whether everything needs to work on Lynx
or not.

People need to stop looking around every corner for the next thing
that offends them and start looking for real, tangible, impactful ways
to advance accessibility into the mainstream.

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Jennison Mark Asuncion
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Once again, WebAIM has done great work and has published salary and
> other useful insights into working in digital accessibility. Results
> of their summer survey are here
> http://webaim.org/projects/practitionersurvey/
>
> I also came across this piece and thought I'd share it. The '100%
> accessible website' joke--do web accessibility professionals have a
> sense of humour?
> http://www.accessiq.org/news/w3c-column/2014/09/the-100-accessible-website-joke-do-web-accessibility-professionals-have-a
>
> Jennison
> > > --

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