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Steve Jobs gave ‘the blind eyes; the deaf ears’ — Stevie Wonder“His company was the first to come up with technology that made it accessible without screaming out loud, ‘This is for the blind, this is for the deaf” Wonder said

From too many corporations I hear too many stories of frustrating resistance to accessible design or of product teams putting accessibility as the 92nd priority. Most of the objections to integrating accessibility into product design center around 2 misconceptions: 1) Accessibility will mess up the aesthetic; and 2) Accessibility will cost too much.

why accessibility matters and how accessibility actually enhances any product design

making them useful and usable to as many people as possible.

Truly you’ve been a blessing for those of us who’ve needed that kind of technology to do more things, to be part of this world, to be in this millennium.'

“I’m just hoping that his life and what he did in his life will encourage those who are living still and those who will be born, that it will encourage them and challenge them to do what he has done,” Wonder added, “and not making the whole concept so complicated that people can’t use it -- you just make it one of your applications, it’s in your technology. That will then create a world that will be accessible to anyone with any physical disability, and anyone can buy it, even if that person doesn’t have lots of money.”

infographic that highlights a few important principles of accessible design