I heavily disagree. As a visual learner I need pictures. Everything is visual to me, even math, language, programming… if you give me a wall of text using abstract terms I won’t understand shit. I require graphs, visual representations, mindmaps, something.
It might not be the optimal medium for everyone (there is no universally accessible medium for anything!), but to argue that pictures make things less accessible is just plain wrong.
Illiterate != inaccessible
Also pictures are more difficult to translate into braille or large text. So a picture actually makes this less accessible.
I heavily disagree. As a visual learner I need pictures. Everything is visual to me, even math, language, programming… if you give me a wall of text using abstract terms I won’t understand shit. I require graphs, visual representations, mindmaps, something.
It might not be the optimal medium for everyone (there is no universally accessible medium for anything!), but to argue that pictures make things less accessible is just plain wrong.
Unless text is removed to add the picture, nobody loses anything by adding additional tools that help some people.