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#253 The state of accessibility with Derek Featherstone

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The Importance of Language in Accessibility

The words that we use matter, the way that we describe a problem. I was talking about this the other day with another group of people. The mindset in a lot of places about accessibility is that it's like this fixed thing,. We had WCAG 1.0 for 11 years, 12 years. And then we had another WCAG 2.0 and then we had 2.1. There are things that we know but we can't make it objectively testable or we can't achieve consensus on it. Therefore, it doesn't make it into our standards and guidelines. But that doesn't mean it's not accessible.

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