{"id":390,"date":"2018-06-20T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=390"},"modified":"2018-09-07T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:32:33","slug":"chapter-1-3-why-should-we-design-for-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/chapter\/chapter-1-3-why-should-we-design-for-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should We Design for Accessibility"},"content":{"raw":"Please view the video titled \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yx7hdQqf8lE&amp;t=190s\" title=\"This link takes you to Youtube's instance \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind<\/a>\"\r\n\r\n<iframe title=\"Video titled Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yx7hdQqf8lE\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/intro\/media\/asd.htm\" title=\"This link takes you to WebAIM's site with the transcript (opens in new window)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcript for Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">As teachers and members of an academic institution, don't we want everyone to have the opportunity to learn, share, be creative and succeed in life? Aren't we here to enrich people\u2019s lives and provide information to everyone? Imagine if we can open doors to information, not shut them to a certain segment of the population. We want to enable independence for people with disabilities.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">To quote David Berman, a web accessibility expert, \"what if we had denied an education to these people?\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div width=\"98%; clear:both;\">\r\n<div style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 3em; width: 16em;\">\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/06\/ron_mace.gif\" alt=\"Ron Mace\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" dir=\"ltr\" height=\"256\" lang=\"en-us\" width=\"214\" \/> <br>Ron Mace is known as the father of universal design. He became an architect and worked on the first U.S. building codes to incorporate principles of accessible design, in North Carolina in 1973. In college, he was carried into buildings that had no wheelchair ramps.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 3em; width: 16em;\">\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Physicist_Stephen_Hawking_in_Zero_Gravity_NASA_256pxHigh.jpg\" alt=\"Physicist Stephen Hawking floating in zero gravity, supported by three NASA astronauts\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" dir=\"ltr\" height=\"256\" lang=\"en-us\" width=\"301\" \/>Stephen Hawking is a famous mathematician and physicist, teaching at Cambridge University. He wrote \u201cA Short History of the Universe\" and served as the prestigious <span><span>Lucasian<\/span><\/span> Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 3em; width: 16em;\">\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/08\/Helen_Keller_Century_Magazine_January_1905_page_454_200x256px.jpg\" alt=\"Helen Keller reading a book and smelling roses\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" dir=\"ltr\" height=\"256\" lang=\"en-us\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\nHelen Keller was the first blind and deaf person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree. She became a lecturer, writer, and political activist.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">If <span>you\u2019ve<\/span> ever experienced being excluded from an activity you wanted to participate in, you\u2019ll understand, that designing inclusive experiences is the right thing to do.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">It's smart for business, helping users find our information and broadening our customer base.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Moreover, it\u2019s the law.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">For another perspective on designing for accessibility, view David Berman's video titled \"<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"This link takes you to Youtube's instance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fuGl4bnBlw0\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Should We Care<\/a>.\"<\/p>\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuGl4bnBlw0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p>Please view the video titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yx7hdQqf8lE&amp;t=190s\" title=\"This link takes you to Youtube's instance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video titled Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yx7hdQqf8lE\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/intro\/media\/asd.htm\" title=\"This link takes you to WebAIM's site with the transcript (opens in new window)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transcript for Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">As teachers and members of an academic institution, don&#8217;t we want everyone to have the opportunity to learn, share, be creative and succeed in life? Aren&#8217;t we here to enrich people\u2019s lives and provide information to everyone? Imagine if we can open doors to information, not shut them to a certain segment of the population. We want to enable independence for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em;\">To quote David Berman, a web accessibility expert, &#8220;what if we had denied an education to these people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 3em; width: 16em;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/accessibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/06\/ron_mace.gif\" alt=\"Ron Mace\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px; border: 1px solid black;\" dir=\"ltr\" height=\"256\" lang=\"en-us\" width=\"214\" \/> <br \/>Ron Mace is known as the father of universal design. He became an architect and worked on the first U.S. building codes to incorporate principles of accessible design, in North Carolina in 1973. 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