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Tech companies have shut out millions. Apple, Google and Netflix now want to change that
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When tech companies roll out new products, they’re not always thinking about making them accessible to people with disabilities. This shuts millions of people out. Thankfully, more organizations and events like Global Accessibility Awareness Day are shedding light on this issue, pushing tech giants like Apple, Google and Netflix to make their offerings available to everyone. There’s been significant progress over the last several years, but disability advocates like Zach Anner and Tatiana Lee note there’s a long road ahead before everyone is fully included in product designs and rollouts.
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Not a first comment. appreciate it 🙂
Loved Zach Anner in rooster teeth content and his own.
Question: How did Twitter change the world?
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One day, tech will take us over completely
This is an ignorant video this stuff wasn’t accessible in the beginning because handicap people are a small percentage of the Salesforce this country is driven by sale not my feelings.
Excellent video!
Nice video. Well done
That is my life every day as a vision impaired and hard of hearing
great video!
ABRAR! Good to finally see you in a CNET video!
Very important topic and we’ll explained. Would be great to see Abrar reporting more on camera at CNET.
Making Products accessible for everyone is very important. As a beginner UX designer I always try to make the experience of interacting with my prototypes as pleasant for everyone as possible.
Well done, Abrar.
I don’t use iphone. I don’t use twitter. I don’t use netflix.
I don’t use twitter and netflix and i think there is no need for them to me and a lot of people in my country at least for the next years.
Yes..and lately ppl with any type of physical disabilities have been taken a back seat..especially now since every little thing is labeled as disability
Really important topic and nice host.
Good work cnet 👍
It’s all about the money. When someone makes an app/website etc, making it disabled-people-friendly often requires some additional effort/time/money and possibly some aesthetics sacrifice — e.g. large buttons that would be better for visually-impaired may look ugly for the rest of us. And as a software/website developer I’ll ask myself: “Is it worth it?” “Will enough disabled people use my product and generate the money to compensate me for making my product disabled-people-friendly?” If the answer for that question was “yes”, we’d have more disabled-friendly products…
Maybe some government incentive program is the solution, I don’t know.
Excellent video!
It should be a legal requirement for all corporations to include disability access in any product. To exclude people shows an ignorant arrogance. None compliance should incur hefty monetary fines without court rulings.
Thank you CNET for bringing awareness to this issue.
I am wondering how would they rate their own video for accessibility? It does have subtitle but missing audio description. How can they make this video more accessible?
Thanks so much for watching! I’m floored by the positive responses and am glad to see all the important conversations about this in the comments. What other changes would you like to see tech companies make for their products to be more accessible?
Abrar is a really nice host. Looking for more content like this on CNET.
Excellent reporting. Well done
Good video, keep it up. 👍🏾🇿🇦🤟🏾
Tldr.. lot of conplaining about free software that has and will take accessibility seriously.
I wish Google chrome could add «text to speech» it would help me with dyslexia get through long articles and whatever long Im reading. I know you can get extension.
Thanks for discussing this important topic.
The most important thing is for tech companies to have people with disabilities in mind when designing their products and solutions. That would go a long way.