Quotes About Accessibility

When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name if it weren't embossed on their American Express

More likely the BLM or the Park Service will bypass our trail with an electrical chair lift for crippled tourists.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.

I am optimistic that many, when choosing where to buy their lunch, will settle on the sandwich chain which a map, or possibly an app, says has committed to providing disabled access in all its outlets.

Live broadcasting was something only done by the rich news organizations. So when you bring it to the masses, the public gets really excited.

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

A car for every purse and purpose.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.

Oprez je staza osrednjosti. Ljigava, bestrasna osrednjost je sve što ve?ina ljudi vjeruje da im je dostupno.

Mediante tu creencia en las singularidades granulares, deniegas todo movimiento… evolutivo o degenerativo. La creencia fija un universo granular y hace que ese universo persista. No puede permitirse que cambie nada porque de esa forma nuestro universo no moviente se desvanece. Pero se mueve por sí mismo cuando tú no te mueves. Evoluciona más allá de ti y ya no te resulta accesible.

The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter.

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the arts elite.

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

Tennis is not always that accessible but I sometimes think badminton is harder - tennis you can always play against the wall but badminton is tough to even play outdoors with the wind.

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.

People have been like 'well you need millions of dollars to buy and sell stocks.' That sort of idea was thrown out of the window with online brokerages like E-trade and Fidelity, and today, we think that you don't even need thousands of dollars to trade stocks.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.