Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Accessibility. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Accessibility Quotes And Sayings by 88 Authors including Maysoon Zayid,Giles Duley,Ellen Lupton,Stevie Wonder,Lorraine Hansberry for you to enjoy and share.
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.
I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.
America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.
The blind cannot see light,
but can feel its warmth.
The deaf cannot hear sound,
but are aware of its power.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
Pedestrian accessibility is the key.
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.
Sociology professor Osagie K. Obasogie recently produced some ingenious research - he interviewed people blind from birth and found the same attitudes about race as in the sighted world.
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
Type should be beautiful - Screw readable!
Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.
What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
Of course I read Braille, yes.
To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
What's the emergency?"
"I'm disabled!"
-The IT Crowd
It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.
We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.
Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.
We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.
Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.
Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed.
The deaf cannot hear wind,
but can feel its touch.
The blind cannot see the sun,
but can feel its warmth.
I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
I've come to believe that the word 'disabled' is a misnomer. 'Disabled' implies that you are broken beyond use. No longer functional. I'm quite abled.
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Despite their physical inability to engage with race on the very visual terms that are thought to define its salience and social significance, blind people's understanding and experience with race is not unlike that of sighted individuals.
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking ... I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain ... by taking lessons in seeing ... optometrists hate the method ...
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.
The door to the invisible must be visible.
A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.
Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile.
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them.
We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher.
There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head
Never mistake legibility for communication.
If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.
Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.
The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf ...
As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, 'Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?'
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
What does disabled mean anyhow?
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.
We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.
Blind yourself, for I am blind.
The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass cubicle.
If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.
If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.
We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.
In the kingdom of the blind, one eyed is the king; in the kingdom of the sighted, make-believe is the emperor!
People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.
In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.
The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.
Never be led in new paths by the blind
If you live in a country where the majority is blind, you'll find it difficult to find the way
I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
Without access, rights are meaningless
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
Disability is the inability to see ability.
I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
My body was braille for the creeping influences.
In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.
As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.
Blindness is not so much a tragedy as it is a damn nuisance.