Are community websites accessible to everyone?
Never. The Federation of the Blind shows in its study that only 80 of the 2,272 monitored sites (3.52%) comply with their display obligations: 18.75% of regions, 6.12% of departments, 0.94% of intermunicipal entities and 0.57% of cities .
In my opinion, there are two reasons: on the one hand, culturally we have a medical rather than a social view of disability; and on the other hand, there is no real support for communities from the state, with a common platform for creating your own website, free software and fairly simple things. The Disability Act was passed in 2005: obviously no one says they don’t like people with disabilities. And if no one wants to do bad, then no one wants to do good… But…
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