From Tragedy to Triumph Josh Basiles Journey #shorts

4 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Josh Basile realized during COVID lockdown that digital accessibility mattered as much as physical access. Less than 2% of websites met accessibility guidelines, which drove him to help people with disabilities experience the web equally.

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For so much, when I thought of accessibility from a day-to-day standpoint, it was in the physical world. And then we were all trapped, and it just, it just really opened my eyes to how much the internet and the public accommodations around the internet, how important it is to make sure that the world and people with disabilities have access, um, just like everyone else, or just to be able to experience websites just like everyone else. And it was clear to me that the deeper I dove into it, at that time I think less than 2% of the internet met accessibility guidelines. And that was just a huge number that I wanted to do something about.