Fascinating read through covering historical context for accessibility and assistive technologies as well as diving into the way we do accessibility in the web today.

According to author Be Birchall this article aims to shift your perspective

by showing how web accessibility fits into the broader areas of technology, disability, and design. We’ll see how designing for different sets of abilities leads to insight and innovation. I’ll also shed some light on how the history of browsers and HTML is intertwined with the history of assistive technology.