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Quotes About Accessibility

A car for every purse and purpose.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
We should not make disabled lives subject to debate
~ Alice Wong
Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.
~ Baiju Bhatt
At Southwest, they're on a mission to democratize air travel. When they first started, the only people who could fly were relatively wealthy businesspeople, and Herb Kelleher's vision was to offer everyone the chance to visit a friend or relative during a happy and a sad time. That's a vision employees can get excited about.
~ Ken Blanchard
Our move to offer free options trading is rooted in the belief that sophisticated investment tools don't need to be complex or reserved for the wealthy.
~ Baiju Bhatt
I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
~ Dolly Parton
I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
~ Madeleine Albright
If there are people out by the bus, I'll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, 'If I ever get on the bus and don't come off, it's because I'm under the weather or I'm really tired.'
~ Luke Bryan
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
~ Adam D'Angelo
The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.
~ Joe Clark
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.
~ Erik Qualman
The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.
~ Ken Goldberg
The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
The Web belongs to everyone.
~ Molly Holzschlag
The audience is different for TV and web, but the latter offers everything for everyone.
~ Mithila Palkar
To be honest, making films is so expensive and their shelf life is limited. On the web, content remains... you can watch it after five, eight, 10 years... There's a huge audience and content on the web is accessible at the click of a phone.
~ Neeraj Kabi
It does not bother me whether my work is reaching the audience through cinema, TV or a web series.
~ Jaideep Ahlawat
Globally, the toll-free numbers advertised by companies promise more than they deliver. And even websites are at pains to ensure that customers cannot get through to individuals, so there are no names, phone numbers or direct e-mail IDs to people in charge.
~ Sucheta Dalal
I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.
~ Johnny Isakson
My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.
~ Brian Kemp
Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman