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From: Judith Blankman
Date: Sep 26, 2017 12:57PM

I agree that Universal Design principles that Marissa points out are good examples of how to simply make life better for everyone when creating solutions for specific needs, whether physical or cognitive.

A person's disability doesn't have to negatively impact their productivity or value to a company. Anything that can support them is a good measure of a company's ability to be productive, even innovative.

We are all getting older. Anyone who might not be able to empathize might try to look into the future and imagine themselves as their parents, grandparents or other elder relatives. It's important to help a business understand that people still need to be employed as they age and that their wisdom and experience should be highly valued.

Be an employer of choice for everyone. It's good for business, the community and humankind.


Best,

Judith Blankman




From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of Marissa Goldsmith < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Reply-To: " <EMAIL REMOVED> " < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 6:31 AM
To: " <EMAIL REMOVED> " < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Internal tool accessibility justifications

I try to preach that anything you do to make your site more accessible is
good for the general population. It works that way in the real world (think
curb cut-outs, automatic doors). It's tough to find solid data, but a few
things ring out:


- Many accessibility best-practices are also in line with a lot of SEO
best practices. Being accessible can help improve your search ranking.
- Think about how we all use closed captioning every day. It's a given
now on a Facebook video - I won't watch one without closed captioning.
Here's an article I read last week about how closed captions benefit all
students - it's not a web article per se, but definitely speaks to the
benefit of closed captioning:
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/8/a-rising-tide-how-closed-captions-can-benefit-all-students
.
- Here's a good article from NNG on font readability:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/legibility-readability-comprehension/



Marissa Goldsmith
www.marissagoldsmith.com
571-354-7746
@mjgoldsmith




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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:30 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

Thanks, I wanted to find non-legal justification. As these are the items
that normally pop-up on my searches and only work in certain countries. USA
it works really good but other countries this doesn't occur.