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Accessibility from the start

Creating technology that benefits everyone
September 29, 2020

How does Twitter ensure it puts accessibility at the forefront? 

In the Examining Underrepresentation series, we’ve been exploring ways that underrepresented folks exist within organizations. But we also need to consider the folks who use our products. As software leaders, we build products that people use on a daily basis, and it’s important that we make them usable for everyone.

Accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought. That’s the one takeaway I hope you gain from this article. Universal design – the principle that design should make any product usable to the full range of human abilities – is at the core of this lesson.

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