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In reply to @DianaThompson.

@DianaThompson Skiplinks could be helpful, but I honestly think the most helpful thing would be for the block editor to stop trying to be Microsoft Word on the web, because the document object model available for Word, which screen readers absolutely need, will never be available to the browser. So everything in that path is trying to reinvent a wheel you can never have.

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i wish people would start saying “people who need screenreaders” instead of “visually impaired people” or similar, because:

1. not everyone with low vision needs a screenreader. this leads to people thinking their job making things accessible is done by making things screenreader-friendly, while most of it is still violently inaccessible to hard of sight people like me who rarely use screenreaders and rely on things like large text.

2. not everyone who uses a screenreader does so because of low vision. i have low vision and the main reason i use a screenreader sometimes are visual processing issues. the idea that only people who can’t see (and thus also can’t read) use screenreaders leads to situations like on twitter when we weren’t able to actually read the alt text, leaving lots of things inaccessible for lots of people. i missed out on a lot of stuff before i was able to view alt text.

be specific. it matters.

#LowVision #Disabled #Disability #VisualProcessingDisorder

—@soongtypedelta

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I’m going to repeat this so it’s clear.

If the fedi fractures around the ideological lines of safety vs. unsustainable growth, I’m okay with that.

I am very comfortable with being part of the fedi that actually gives a shit about people rather than treating them as product.

I have no interest in repeating the same mistakes and creating decentralized rage engines.

I believe this space can be better.

—@Are0h

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@Homebrewandhacking @bitwarden @1password

You’re right – you have no control over the password policies for third-party services. So with that in mind, let me introduce you to a concept I debuted last summer called #PasswordNihilism .

Password nihilism is understanding that sites have shit complexity requirements and shit password storage, and then not giving a shit because you recognize that none of it matters. Max 8 characters? Doesn’t matter, don’t care. Plaintext storage? Doesn’t matter, don’t care.

Why doesn’t it matter, and why should you not care? Because out of all the attributes a password can have (length, complexity, uniqueness, randomness, etc.), the only one that actually matters is uniqueness. And by “matters”, I mean “actually defends against threats in the overall threat model for password security.”

So, as long as you’re using a password manager to generate and store unique passwords for each site, you too can be a password nihilist!

If you’d like to learn more about password nihilism, check out:

This interview with @thorsheim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkGom-bngs

And this interview with @todb:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/62kyiCbX8vsx74n94dAT1C

—@epixoip

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It has been proven repeatedly that platforms prioritizing growth over safety are toxic to everyone else who doesn’t present as white, straight, and a man.

No, I’m not going to debate it anymore. No, I don’t care if people think I’m wrong to center safety in my dev efforts because I can live with it going sideways if that happens.

But in my experience as a dev and a citizen of the web for more than two decades, the missing link to rehumanizing social media spaces is safety for the most marginalized people that have historically been ignored.

And I’m going to create around that ethos.

—@Are0h