Creating an Accessible Digital Future | Judy Brewer | TEDxMIT

Getting online can give people access to science, technology, and the world of ideas. Over a billion people in the world have some kind of disability—but we’re still putting barriers in front of them in the online world. Inclusive design allows us to design better technologies that everyone can use.

Judy Brewer works on accessibility of the digital world at the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide accessibility guidance for the web, on descriptions for images and video, captions for audio, interoperability for speech recognition, and sites that are easier to learn for people with cognitive disabilities. Accessibility is also important for mobile phones, digital books, online games, telepresence robots, virtual reality and more.

An international community of people working on digital accessibility is improving awareness, rights, and resources for accessibility. Accessibility is now recognized as part of corporate social responsibility and as an innovation driver; and these changes are contributing to improvements in products and services.

[amandataub]

This is a wonderful presentation with a speaker full of passion about accessibility in tech.


TEDx, why is this video and many of your videos not closed captioned? This is exactly the issue that Ms. Brewer is speaking about.

[rahulborah]

Now we must thing something about our matter we are rich in technology but what if there is no one to see it or use planet earth is the mother of all was

[desiredecove]

Sharing in a global FB group for Multiple Sclerosis ❤️

[kristaboston]

Captions? Without them this isn’t an accessible video. Auto generated are bad.

[vijayvr]

Judy ma'am superb speech about that accessible digital future nice reference yeah 👌👌👌👌💯🕺🇮🇳 IND

[zitagazga]

Amazing talking if this gentil lady 👏👏👏

[CauseAlarm]

Since I'm old enough to know things before the internet this should already happen but the same people that always promote this with the corporations or Technologies are the same people that will deny you! These type of Technologies are never meant to help the user it's only in the benefit of the abuser!

[NewBeingQueenTalkShow]

Tools and technology is made accessible to everyone regardless of their abilities. It opens up possibilities to become successful without the sting of being inconvenienced.

[daemonbyte]

I don't understand the awareness problem. I've been a developer for 15 years and I was taught about accessibility rules from my first day at work. It's built into the laws of every EU country. It doesn't matter is the average layman knows the rules as long as the developers building the websites know them.

[TheFinnmacool]

Accessible for who? The people who agree with FB and Twitter and the other tech tyrants or just those who are compliant?

[JESUS-cvnn]

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[vlnow]

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