Thread by @FrankElavsky

After hearing I do accessibility in data science, it is always weird when a researcher or data practitioner says, "how interesting, very cool work."

As if human rights is some kind of curious little subject they hadn't considered? This is projected by law?? They need to do it??

Designers and web engineers tend to know this is important, so the comments are rarely off-putting after I give a talk. They usually attend because they need the skills.

From them I often get, "wow, this is exactly what I was looking for and knew I needed! Thank you!"

But many academics and analysts are so used to compartmentalizing info and literally deleting human consideration from their work that they do not know they are neglecting significant legal precedence.

"Oh how curious that someone would need this 'access' you speak of. Strange!"

Academics often attend talks out of boredom or something?? Why are you at an accessibility talk if you do not know what this is?

Do you not think you need to teach or share your research someday? Do you not know that for research to be reproducible it must be accessible?

People who have no urgency with accessibility are clearly not doing things that are meant to be relevant for human use at any kind of scale or quality.

Anyways, I recently spoke with an academic crowd and got this kind of commentary again and it always gets my gears churning...

I might retweet this thread every now and again, especially if it precedes a talk t certain audiences.