Attila Vágó
Mar 23, 2022

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I am a huge accessibility advocate and happen to also be a web accessibility professional, and still some of these examples I think are taking things a step too far. We seem to be promoting a culture where instead of re-educating people on context, we tell them to cut words from their vocabulary, because someone somewhere will get offended. It removes people's ability to have nuanced conversations where they can understand the meaning based on context. This is a problem I don't only see in speech related to disability, but everything. It's getting increasingly difficult to say something, anything, and not be perceived as ableist, sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, culturally appropriating, gender-biased, etc, etc, etc. Are we planning to get to a point where all we do is grunt?

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Attila Vágó
Attila Vágó

Written by Attila Vágó

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️

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