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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

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I watch panels like this as well as related talks, and then I think about the state of tech privacy and ethics generally in the United States, (see our recent congressional tech hearings), and I’m asking myself why I haven’t started day-drinking. Europe is having constructive discussions about this stuff while

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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)

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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.

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Takeaway from this talk, which anyone who contributes to open source or free software or anyone introducing others to said software should take to heart: Capitalism loves what you create, but companies do not love you and never will, even if they create things you like. Companies are not your friend. They are not on your side. We should all keep this in mind the next time we find ourselves overcome by the desire to kill ourselves in the creation of something which has the potential to benefit a lot of people. By all means, create that thing. But we need to make sure we look after things like our mental health, our relationships with our loved ones, the things that are truly important in life. I saw some tweets today mentioning the fact that Apple essentially glorified working weekends and the like during WWDC. I’ve seen the prioritization of working basically non-stop for the cause of disability rights or equal access for all. Of course nobody comes out and recommends that, but it’s there. It’s sort of expected I think, (see, for example, people with disabilities being urged to educate rather than to demand

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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