I just encountered the term 'a11y' and had to google it to see what it means.
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I just encountered the term 'a11y' and had to google it to see what it means.
Apparently, it means 'accessibility'.
This feels ironic, to use arcane numerology when talking about the importance of making things accessible. There wasn't even a space issue in the context in which I encountered it!
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Jean Luc POI I7FI π―οΈreplied to Ergative Absolutive last edited by
@ergative
I wouldn't be surprised if a11y is a jargonized term of computer-related people (programmers, computer scientists etc), since they (we, actually) use i18n since, um, forever as an abbreviation for Internationalization.Why?
P12y, I presume. Practicability, that is.
The abbr. is just shorter and therefore faster to type, and you avoid A LOT of opportunities to make random spelling mistakes.
#a11y #i18n -
Darrell Hilliker π¨βπ¦―βΎοΈπ‘replied to Jean Luc POI I7FI π―οΈ last edited by
@datenhalde @ergative Right. I don't consider #a11y to be ableist but any and all inaccessible front-end or user-interface design and development practices are ableist, discriminatory, lazy, poor quality and sloppy and they all must stop yesterday. Companies need to immediately stop paying people to create ableist experiences that lock us out. #accessibility
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Elena Brescacinreplied to Darrell Hilliker π¨βπ¦―βΎοΈπ‘ last edited by
@darrell73 @datenhalde @ergative Can I be malicious? I suspect that politicians or at least people with lots of money, want us to be less empowered than before. Empowering people means less control for them.