#offline accessibility

[snazzy-fox]

Accessibility makes things easier for everyone. Not just a few people, everyone.

This could be as simple as a preference—a girl doesn't like looking at a screen, so she uses a screen reader to read text off of a long educational paper.

But it could be used for other things. Heavy suitcases can be much easier taken up into a building if there's a slope. Alternative ways for opening doors (like buttons) can help if your hands are full or you have an injury and it may hurt to push a heavy door. Screen readers can help you understand something if you have eyestrain. Captioning can help someone understand a video if they're in a noisy place.

Now, this is NOT the reason you should be building accessible online and offline spaces.

But unfortunately people—especially those who are privileged—do not care.

Same applies to the "everyone becomes disabled" argument; it shouldn't HAVE to be used to convince abled people that accessibility is important and should be included in their plans.

If I convinces just one person to create more accessibility, I won't regret appealing to their selfishness.

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Hi there! I hope you don't mind the sorta off-topic ask, but I figure you're bound to have more reach with visually impared/blind people than I do given the goal of the blog. I recently started working in a dental office and have been thinking about how some of the standard practices we do aren't very accessibility friendly. I'm buying some text magnitizers for documents to have on-hand in case people need the help reading (either because glasses aren't enough or they forgot their readers), and I'm trying to think of anything else along those lines that could make dental visits easier. If anything comes to mind or any of your followers have advice/experiences to share I'd love to read them! Poking around online sadly hasn't lead me to many sources from actual disabled people :(

Anyways thank you so much for your blog!

Publishing this to see if anyone has thoughts :) [smiley face].

Thanks for the ask!