> I'm sure we can all appreciate not climbing 30 flights of stairs, even if it we are physically capable of it.
Totally. And people seem to forget that you can temporarily go from "no disabilities" to "have a disability" to "no disabilities" very quickly. Slip of a knife while cooking can take a hand out of commission for a few days. Stepping on your glasses can make you visually-impaired for a few days. Ear infection can seriously affect your hearing until it's healed.
And there's tech issues that can come up too! A couple of weeks ago I needed to get an embedded Linux device set up with SSH and could only find a spare mouse in the office, no random USB keyboards kicking around. Trying to use the Gnome on-screen keyboard was an exercise in frustration. Some symbols were missing that I needed to type into a shell, for example.
Totally. And people seem to forget that you can temporarily go from "no disabilities" to "have a disability" to "no disabilities" very quickly. Slip of a knife while cooking can take a hand out of commission for a few days. Stepping on your glasses can make you visually-impaired for a few days. Ear infection can seriously affect your hearing until it's healed.
And there's tech issues that can come up too! A couple of weeks ago I needed to get an embedded Linux device set up with SSH and could only find a spare mouse in the office, no random USB keyboards kicking around. Trying to use the Gnome on-screen keyboard was an exercise in frustration. Some symbols were missing that I needed to type into a shell, for example.