Accessibility Quotes

“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds that
the dorms and classrooms can't
accommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the suggestion that she is not good marriage material for the men at the elite college to which Smithcliff is a bride-supplying "sister school." The letter inquires as to why she hasn't been institutionalized.
When she goes to the administration building to protest the decision, she can't get up the flight of marble steps on the Greek Revival building. This edifice was designed to evoke a connection to the Classical world, which practiced infanticide of disabled newborns.”
― Rosemarie Garland Thomson

“The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because of complaints that a woman who is so obviously not sexually attractive selling alluring nightgowns makes customers uncomfortable. Daunted by her dismissal, she seeks consolation in the arms of the young manager and soon finds herself pregnant. Upon learning
of this news, he leaves her for a
nondisabled woman with a fuller
bustline and better homemaking skills in his inaccessible kitchen.”
― Rosemarie Garland Thomson

“In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.”
― John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

“Consider me a sovereign citizen of the information age. One cannot own the truth; one can merely access it.”
― Mark Miller

“The IP profession stands out as an ideal career path for persons with disabilities, offering not just independence and self-determination , paving the way for a respectable and rewarding livelihood.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“For persons with disabilities, the Intellectual Property profession is a gateway to independence, autonomy, and an inclusive work environment that respects and values individuals from all walks of life, offering a path to a respectable and sustainable livelihood.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The Intellectual Property field provides great opportunities for persons with disabilities, providing the twin benefits of professional independence and the chance to thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment, leading to a dignified and rewarding career.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Simple, organized layouts and predictable navigation patterns support learners with cognitive disabilities in processing information and completing tasks.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“Adjustments to colors and fonts primarily benefit learners with vision impairments, however there is also a great benefit for learners with other cognitive limitations. High contrast between text and background is crucial for learners with low vision or color blindness.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“Some learners may grasp information quicker or more efficiently through visual or auditory means compared to printed text. Also, learning and transfer of learning occur when multiple representations are used, because these allow learners to make connections within, as well as between, concepts.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“When images have ALT text, screen readers can produce a verbal description of the image, which allows learners with visual impairments to understand the image content.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“Readability makes information easier to process and understand. Simple sentence structures and familiar terms reduce cognitive load, improving comprehension and retention. This is particularly helpful for learners with cognitive impairments or learning disabilities like dyslexia.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“Before we extol the virtues of intellectual property for Sustainable Development Goals, we must first ensure gender equality and accessibility within the IP system.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“With nearly 70% of its associates being women, BananaIP has pioneered the participation of women in intellectual property. I hope all organizations will strive towards this goal on World IP Day.”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Double-check emoji descriptions. An excellent resource for digital content creators who want to use emoji in smart and strategic ways is the website emojipedia.org.

The site lists every known emoji along with their different appearances and descriptions across platforms, devices, and browsers. It’s a useful way to double-check emoji descriptions before using an icon.”
― Alexa Heinrich, Accessible Social: A beginner's guide to creating inclusive social media content

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that they’re eccentric, but I’d like them to show me that it’s because they’re superior to the norm rather than incapable of it.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Artificial Intelligence could be
the greatest boon in accessibility,
yet AI enthusiasm is exhausted in
grotesque plagiarism and pomposity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“To me, the inaccessibility of most places sent the message that people with disabilities weren't welcome unless they were willing to adapt.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“A disabled girl can be weird and fun and cool and make mistakes. She doesn't have to be everybody's shining inspiration. But she can fall in love and have adventures and just live her life. Especially if all she needs is a freaking ramp.”
― Natalie Lloyd, Hummingbird

“Accessibility is Humanity (Sonnet)

I wanted my mind to be accessible to everyone,
so I started translating my core ideas into as
many languages as I can phonetically make sense.
I wanted to be visible further beyond the eyes,
so, lacking braille, I started recording my voice.

I have a scientist brain, sufi heart, and a monk
spirit - I don't need to outsource any faculty.
I am capable, I am incorruptible, I am alive -
I need no one's charity to uphold my humanity.

No backing, only backbone.
No benefactor, only brain power.
No industry, only integrity.
No contract, only character.

Exclusivity breeds jungle, inclusivity makes society.
Vip access is for animals, accessibility is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Accessibility is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Inclusivity makes society, accessibility is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Most Human (Sonnet 2151)

Racism is no longer tolerated as normal,
Islamophobia is no longer tolerated as normal,
Homophobia is no longer tolerated as normal,
Chauvinism is no longer tolerated as normal,
Colonialism is no longer tolerated as normal -

believe you me, I speak as a biologist,
this is the most human humanity have
ever been in our 200,000 years long history.

Accessibility is no longer ignored as unimportant,
Autism is no longer frowned upon as abnormal,
Integration is no longer cussed as act of stigma,
Intolerance no longer celebrated as divine intervention.

No wonder bigots have their knickers in a twist,
customs of the jungle are getting eradicated like disease.
Don't be disheartened by occasional resurgence of fascism,
inhumanity flickers fiercely before fading into the abyss.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“AI scales operations, let humans scale compassion.”
― Janna Cachola

“A remembrance: nothing has to be the way it is. Access is created, it gets taken away/destroyed, but it can be created again.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

“It’s never just Hard, Activist Work. It’s disabled pleasure. It’s wild disabled joy. It’s us on the dance floor, throwing our heads back laughing. It’s the permission, the utter permission to be as we are. It’s the ways we create pleasure to both make the work sweeter and more accessible—pleasure as a form of access. It’s a lot easier to get people to sign up for the long struggle of changing the world if we have fun and disabled joy while we do it.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

“Somehow, someway, I'm going to create a community of people who believed that disability itself is not a barrier; the biggest barriers are social, physical, and digital.”
― Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

“A prompt is a doorbell.
Presence is someone answering.”
― Ian P. Pines, Relational Co-Authorship: A Method for Writing with AI as Presence, Witness, and Equal