Reading up on iPhone accessibility on the web, I ran across a blog post, Apple blind to iPhone accessibility?, on Ouch, thee BBC’s quirky and lively disability community. The post put me in mind of my recent post, De Facto Foolishness. We both discuss the hostility on the internet towards discussions of making Apples’s products more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
But it’s the comments after the entry that prove really shocking. Apple fans are known for their almost religious dedication to the brand, and some of them simply can’t see the point in ‘needlessly worrying’ about blind and visually impaired phone users.
Where does this antipathy come from? What drives regular people to such vehemence on this issue when there are so many more matters worthy of the soap box. I do not understand.
Just one of the many comments on Yanko Design’s notice about the design of the tactile iPhone case:
yeah, this is alright, but just wait until you see my headphones for the deaf
Sometimes calls for more accessibility are made in frustrations, which can make the writer appear whiny. Yet most are drafted with common sense and a balanced tone. No accessibility advocate wants the world of Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron.
Peace.
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