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[meghansdigitalresponses]

Why Accessibility Matters

For digital writers and designers, I feel like their jobs are about ensuring everyone can access and use the content they create. While they want the content to sound good and engage people, none of that matters if everyone can't access it. According to Horton and Quesenbery in A Web for Everyone, "When websites and applications are badly designed, they create barriers that exclude people from using the web as it was intended." They explain that accessibility is about designing in a way that gets rid of barriers for everyone else. They also make the argument that "disability is a conflict between someone's functional capability and the world we have constructed." In my opinion, this means that poor designs are usually what makes content inaccessible, so it's not always the designer's fault.

I would say understanding the audience is really important in this sense. For example, according to Horton and Quesenbery in People First: Designing for Differences, "You have to know the people you are designing for. And that includes people with disabilities." They emphasize the importance of considering the needs of various different types of users, such as people with disabilities or people with low literacy levels. They also point out that one person's need for accessibility can be very different from someone else's, stating, "Be careful not to assume that feedback from one person with a disability applies to all people with disabilities." I would say this is one of the most important statements from the text because it ensures all accessibility needs and accommodations are inclusive, and it's also why accessibility matters to so many digital writers and designers. They don't want anyone to feel left out!

[toasif]

It took me 7 year to get better at writing, how about you?

Back in 2007, when I started writing, I could write a copy in just 15 minute, but when I read it back it was pure shit. After even correcting few typos here and there, it still wasn't something I was proud of.

The difference between a great copy and my copy was huge. For a brief period of time, I believed I had a problem, I was dyslexic. It made me feel better, because being dyslexic meant, I was in a good company of people like Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Mohammad Ali. But then I took a test and found out that I am as normal as everyone else, I am like you. And the reason I write shit articles is because I am lazy, I am not writing as much I should.

I decided to keep writing, and I kept writing, on and on and on. I also kept reading. I understood that writing great copies doesn't take 15 minutes, it takes a lot of time sometimes the whole day. A writer has to put enormous amount of time into thoughts to put together a great piece.

In 2014, I take time to write, sometimes I just leave it alone for few days and work on 2,3 drafts before getting the final copy. I am still not writing great articles but I am proud of what I create, because I give importance to it.

My content may not please the fans of all the big writers but it helps common people gain the best knowledge they can on a particular topic.

It took me 7 years to get better at writing, how about you?