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27 October 2019 by Amanda Rush 4 Comments

Bookmarked Web Accessibility Is Out To Get You And Make You Feel Sad by Heydon Pickering (heydonworks.com)

Since the landmark Domino’s case, I’ve been having some conversations about web accessibility with people who wouldn’t ordinarily take an interest. Some of these conversations have been productive; others have not. The following is a dramatization based on true events.

This is a good read to keep on hand for those days when you’ve lost your patience with the pushback regarding web accessibility and will probably be necessary until things like punching people and daydrinking become acceptable options for coping.

I’m still laughing. This is the funniest thing I’ve read when it comes to web accessibility in a very long time.

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  • '); DROP T??????????????A?????????B????LE name; -- says: @ twitter.com
    27 October 2019 at 09:07

    I was there and the reason this is so one-sided and hilarious is that it’s Heydon’s attempt to hide his abusiveness as person (whatever he represents) by basically lying about everything he did in the conversation.

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  • Amanda J. Rush says: @ twitter.com
    27 October 2019 at 12:34

    Do you have a link to the conversation? It seems to me that accessibility experts and practitioners and advocates are the only ones expected to be always-polite and always-patient in these conversations, no matter what’s said by the other side, +

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  • Amanda J. Rush says: @ twitter.com
    27 October 2019 at 12:34

    and I have to admit I’m no longer cool with that.

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