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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation: In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/12/16/origins-of-accessibility.html
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David Redmond @DavidRedmond@mastodon.ie
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@fastfinge you may find this article from Bobbie Hickey in the Irish Times this week of interest. Touches on some of the same points. www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2025/12/09/many-mainstream-accessibility-tools-were-originally-designed-for-disabled-people/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@DavidRedmond thanks! There are some more offline examples in this article that I didn’t include because I was focused on the story of digital. I’m glad more blind folks are writing similar articles.
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David Redmond @DavidRedmond@mastodon.ie
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@fastfinge it’s fantastic to see articles like this, and in mainstream publications like the Irish Times Too. Both your article and Bobbie’s are brilliantly researched. Bobbie also ended up discussing the topic on a national Irish news radio station, live from her hospital bed after eye removal surgery.
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