This thread comes at a funny time. I just saw my cousin and roommate come back from surgery. He had the same surgery before in one eye, now he's impaired the other as well. Now it's just waiting and hoping for recovery.

The thing he wants to do the most, in his current blinds state, is not rely on other people. Accessibility allows him to be that independent, empowered person. Thank you to everyone who furthers that cause.

There's also a great 99pi podcast episode about this.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/

This also goes into how the bug was found by a student who managed to contact the lead architect and the process of quietly patching the building. The repair happened under a deadline of an approaching tropical storm for added suspense.

Love Van^Gogh in combination with a Munch cache. Recently went to the Van^Gogh conference where they had a great talk on this topic. [0]

[0] http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/past-exh...

I really love this kind of conferences, where things are almost hands-on and you can see the actual source code of all(!) presented projects.

They even embrace showing source code, and all discussion is centered around a specific piece of code.

These are qualities I miss at most conferences.