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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 7, 2014 12:04PM


I agree that more constructive and innovative solutions would be good to see.

I don't think my post was really off topic though for the WAI list, because it was addressing a valid point regarding web accessibility, which is that only a total lack of information is 100% accessible to all people equally, and the only way to represent this is with a blank page.

It was also supposed to be a thought experiment, designed to make people think instead of just reacting, which happens all too often. So all in all, since people are still talking about it, I guess this worked :)

The article seems to have missed the point of the accessibility algorithm as well, which wasn't a joke either, but actually based on real testing data using these technologies, so the calculation does work, even though they are just estimates and it may not be useful for anything specific. It does prove that the highest bar that any web technology can hope to achieve is the greatest percentage of accessibility for the greatest percentage of people possible using the most common ATs, which can never reach 100% for all people in the world equally no matter what is done to achieve this. We can only do our best...

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karl Groves
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 7:14 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] two worthwhile reads

"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-web
> site-joke-do-web-accessibility-professionals-have-a
>
> Jennison
> > > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>



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