Steven Aquino—Accessible Reborn

My friend and co-creator of Accessible wrote about why he's spending time and effort to create this show. I've pulled out some of the most powerful parts. Read the whole thing here...

In a broad sense, I think bringing back Accessible is important for the Apple podcasting scene. While there are accessibility-minded podcasts out there, I’m frustrated at the general lack of discussion about it on most shows, including all of the “AAA” shows most Apple nerds are familiar with. To be clear: This isn’t me being critical of the people doing the shows; I know everyone doing them and they’re all smart as hell. The issue is simply accessibility is too important a topic not to cover, even though it’s admittedly abstract and hard to understand in places. It’s difficult to talk about something you can’t easily relate to. Still, it’s a subject deserving of our attention. Accessibility is a major facet of all Apple products, and certainly has relevance to the rumor mill as well when ruminating on potential future products.

Put another way: The Apple community needs to talk about accessibility more than it does. 

Thus, our hope for Accessible is to bring some of that conversation to the forefront. As a disabled person and as someone who is looked upon as the “expert” on this topic, I’m hoping that, if we do it right, Accessible can be a trusted source of coverage and analysis of Apple-related topics from a different perspective. To diversify the conversation is, I believe, to enrich the conversation. We hope the conversations we have on the podcast help listeners see Apple (and other companies) in a different light than usual.