Accessibility Quotes

• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Edward H. Levi

  Unity, Mind, Alive

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

  Paul Muldoon

  Clarity, Immediacy

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• Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.

  Steve Ballmer

  Technology, People, Design

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• The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

  Sharon Lee

  Encouragement, Simplicity, Design

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• Pedestrian accessibility is the key.

  Kim Delaney

  Keys, Pedestrians

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• The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

  David Lee

  Long, Firsts, Easy

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• I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

  Diane Kruger

  Class, Ideas, World

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• I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

  Steven Levitan

  People, Today, Tvs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

  Julian Fantino

  Support, Police, Benefits

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• Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.

  Sean Plott

  Technology, Growth, Trends

  "Ex-pro video gamer explains why e-sports are becoming the number one hobby in the world" by Harrison Jacobs, www.businessinsider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Essentials, Disability, Aspect

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• Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Timing, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 18, 2017

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• I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.

  Mindy Grossman

  Honesty, Believe, Support

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• Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Important, Window

  "What's this? Picking Bill Gates' brain at Consumer Electronics Show". Interview with Edward C. Baig, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 9, 2008.

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• I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.

  Paul Newman

  Distance, Thinking, People

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• I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Thinking, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all have choices that we are empowered to make on a daily basis, and while those choices can be limited by affordability and accessibility, we still have the opportunity to make our best choice. That best choice usually requires more effort and more thought, but, undeniably, the results are worth it.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Opportunity, Choices, Effort

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Common, Lowest, Lowest Common Denominator

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

  Martha Stewart

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.

  David Chipperfield

  Mean, Europe, Marketing

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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• Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.

  James Ellroy

  Heart, Thinking, Ass

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• We now live in a world where accessibility is paramount. So I think we just juxtapose that a little bit and maybe play the internet like a game because we don't like to be exposed as individuals, we like to be an entity.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: killingthecabinet.com

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• A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Book, Commitment

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