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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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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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The meme that perpetual licenses were some kind of golden age of joy is the most utterly specious, lying, effluvial spew.

Every one, every. single. person waxing nostalgic about ”pay once, own forever” also screamed like devs were slapping their grannies with hentai tentacle dicks every time a dev *dared* to say “this is not a free upgrade.”

“It’s too expensive” “this shit should be free” on and on, and y’all were absofuckinglutely running cracks.

—@bynkii

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