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Quotes About Accessibility

Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
~ Kevin Spacey
Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.
~ Roy Cooper
I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.
~ Jon Oringer
Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
~ Vikram Patel
We're very lucky that we have such on-trend high street shops in the U.K. as sometimes higher end designers aren't very practical for day-to-day wear.
~ Laura Whitmore
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
~ Frances Hesselbein
I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.
~ Jyoti Amge
What's the difference between me and Mark Udall on contraception? I believe the pill ought to be available over the counter, around the clock, without a prescription. Cheaper and easier for you.
~ Cory Gardner
I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.
~ Charles Hazlewood
I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.
~ Jon Bellion
Early on, my way of teasing the art world was by playing at being accessible. Like making pottery: I thought people would buy that for Christmas presents.
~ Grayson Perry
I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.
~ Ed Rendell
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.
~ Mitchell Baker
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
~ Jack Kilby
Whether it be a televised match or even a live event match, in this day and age, the Internet is so accessible and everybody sees everything.
~ Tommaso Ciampa
If we really want to change the way Americans eat, we need to make delicious, sustainably-raised food accessible to everyone. Most people are not willing to sacrifice taste or pay a lot more when it comes to eating better. That's why the Chipotle model is so important.
~ Steve Ells
People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.
~ Madeline Stuart
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Consumers don't give a damn about what device they're playing on. They just want to play it everywhere. They want to be playing on the console and then take it off to the bus.
~ Peter Molyneux
Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.
~ Satya Nadella
Our end goal is for TaskRabbit to be for everybody and everywhere and every device.
~ Stacy Brown-Philpot
By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.
~ Stella Young
By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.
~ Fabrizio Moreira