[NJTechDiv] The tech industry's accessibility report card for 2021

[Mario Brusco]

The tech industry's accessibility report card for 2021
https://www.engadget.com/accessibility-in-tech-2021-report-card-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-facebook-meta-twitter-210034415.html

In spite of all the advancements we’ve seen in tech, the industry as a 
whole has consistently neglected people with disabilities. There have 
been some improvements, including video call apps like FaceTime, Zoom, 
Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts and more adding better support for sign 
language interpreters and closed captioning. And, this year, Instagram 
and TikTok finally added stickers that enable automated captioning for 
speech in videos, too. But major organizations continued to make 
decisions that exclude people with disabilities. The organizer of E3 
2021, for example, failed its deaf and hard of hearing viewers during 
its live streamed show.

There are too many individual transgressions and improvements to 
exhaustively detail here. Due to their sheer size, though, tech’s 
largest companies wield the greatest influence over what the rest of the 
industry does. By holding them accountable, we have a better chance of 
seeing widespread change in the way tech thinks about inclusive design. 
Here’s how Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta (formerly Facebook) 
and more did to improve the accessibility of their products and services 
in 2021.

For anyone interested, there's more detail about this article at the 
above URL.