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by Eduard 1384 days ago
"Allowing people to participate in society is great but hardly humanity's goal."

Not only does your comment show ignorance of a significant percentage of humans, it also shows you have zero idea of the fact that good accessibility provides service to everyone.

Have you ever struggled to use your smartphone while driving (temporary blindness, because your eyes are focused on the street),

or pressed the wrong button while sitting in a bumpy, shaking bus, because the button you actually wanted to press was way too small (temporary hand coordination disability)?

Accessibility's best practices also exist for everyone to enjoy a great usability.

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Lol what? No you are right struggling to use your smart phone while driving and simultaneously being blinded by the sun are one of humanities great struggles. Let's get real accessibility has and will always take a back seat to innovation unless the innovator is in some way also disabled. You can always circle back around but no disabled person has any right to talk down to someone else because they weren't a first consideration.