Kind: Notes

Has there been any further communication from NFB leadership regarding that instance of providing a serial sexual harasser a platform coupled with organizational blessing at this past summer’s convention, or is that one of those things we’re just supposed to memory hole.

Last time I heard, President Mark Riccabono

Marcy Sutton (@marcysutton on Twitter) asks:

For people with disabilities out there: how does it make you feel when a website isn’t accessible? I’m mostly looking to hear about the quality of your experience when you encounter barriers to access, more than the types of problems out there. This applies to physical spaces and events, too. (I don’t normally dwell on the negative, but it’s for a purpose)

(thread starts here).

I was going to answer this on Twitter by way of a quote, but I think it’ll take more than 280 characters. The short answer: It depends on the site or event.

I happen to agree with Matt’s assessment of Twitter which he expressed at the WordCamp Portland Q&A, so I’m going to try a different tack than Twitter because I hate Twitter threads and this is something that just can’t be discussed in two hundred and eighty character bursts.

Matt, I get that it bothers you at a deep, moral level to hold back a user experience that will significantly upgrade the publishing ability and success of tens or hundreds of millions of users. What should also bother you at a deep, moral level, (and it really doesn’t seem to be bothering you at all), is that you are significantly downgrading