Gary Barber on Killing Accessibility

This is well worth the read, here are just a cou­ple of gems from Gary Barber’s arti­cle titled Kill Acces­si­bil­ity:

The old UX catch call is never truer here – we are not the users. The dis­par­ity between us and the peo­ple we are really work­ing for, with acces­si­bil­ity, is some­times just too great for us to even get a idea of what it is like, no mat­ter how many videos of peo­ple using assis­tive tech­nol­ogy we see.

And this zinger:

In real­ity there is no socially inspired pub­lic rela­tions value in acces­si­bil­ity. A busi­ness can be seen to get more value out of spon­sor­ing a guide dog than mak­ing their web site accessible.

The rest of the arti­cle is well worth the read. (via @scenariogirl)