@jcsteh @ZBennoui I get it.

[techsinger@tweesecake.social]

@jcsteh @ZBennoui I get it. To be fair, I've always had that issue. A tiny amount of money is more important than I am. A slight esthetic upgrade is more important. A blind person is not worth inconveniencing anyone else, even for a moment. Again, that's been the case since at least 2010.

[saschacowley@beige.party]

@techsinger @jcsteh @ZBennoui Why the arbitrary 2010? Disabled people have always been a secondary consideration for the mainstream world

[techsinger@tweesecake.social]

@saschacowley @jcsteh @ZBennoui because, before then, and I'm being very loose with the date, there might have been an argument that people didn't know about accessibility, thought Blind people didn't use computers, they had people to do things for them, they could use the older methods... things like that. In 2009, those sort of statements might have drawn an eye-roll. After 2010 and, as I said, there's nothing magical about that date, it just became really obvious, that sort of argument/statement was just funny, it had no connection to reality.

[saschacowley@beige.party]

@techsinger @jcsteh @ZBennoui I still regularly have to explain what screen-readers are to both laypeople and computing professionals

[techsinger@tweesecake.social]

@saschacowley @jcsteh @ZBennoui Are they pretending not to know so as to avoid work or do they really not know, do you think? Of course it's possible to be wrong either way, but I'd be interested in the impression you get.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@techsinger @saschacowley @jcsteh @ZBennoui Or are they choosing not to learn in order to avoid knowing in order to avoid work.

[techsinger@tweesecake.social]

@pixelate @saschacowley @jcsteh @ZBennoui Just so. The human desire to avoid work is amazing and almost admirable in its persistence.