Internet Inventor: Make Tech Accessibility Better Already
From: CNet - 04/10/2017
By: Joan E. Solsman

Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, who shared the 2004 ACM A.M.
Turing Award with Robert E. Kahn, says technology has a poor record of
accommodating people with disabilities, and he would like to see more
progress made. "It's almost criminal that programmers have not had their feet
held to the fire to build interfaces that are accommodating for people with
vision problems or hearing problems or motor problems," he says. Although
there are many guidelines for accessible tech design, Cerf laments their
deployment is frequently an afterthought. The former ACM president says
accessibility "can't be a pixie dust that you sprinkle on top of the program
and suddenly make it accessible," but should instead be a design choice that
is rewarded. Still, Cerf notes awareness of accessibility issues appears to
be growing among engineers and designers, as well as within the larger tech
community.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-inventor-vint-cerf-accessibility-disability-deaf-hearing

Links:
Designing Software that is Accessible to Individuals with Disabilities
http://www.washington.edu/doit/designing-software-accessible-individuals-disabilities

People Centered Internet (with video 2:14)
https://peoplecentered.net

Related:
CNet Tech-Enabled
https://www.cnet.com/tech-enabled