CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@cinderdazzle612 Honestly? I thought about joining these plaintiffs multiple times, because I can’t tell you how many business people just don’t even try to understand

*sigh* marketing director. Hey can we schedule an accessibility review?

Me. Looks at their website, sees they have a very inaccessible shirt design process.

Me. I am so sorry, but I will be unable to do this accessibility review, but here are some developers that can both code for accessibility and test for accessibility too.

Gives 20 web accessibility developers. Explains in multiple paragraphs why the site is inaccessible. Sends a full report, including blog post links by experts better than me, backing up everything I said and then some.

Marketing director. But they provide more than what we asked for, we just want a video overview of the website with a screen talker.

Me. Fine.

*does the meeting. It comes out to the exact thing I said in the email. That this cannot be fixed unless some deep code making is under way*

Marketing manager. But how do we make it accessible? We don't wanna get sued by blind people. You can't make a website 100% accessible.

Me. Sends an exact copy of the email I sent previously, with more than 10 links to accessibility developers.

Marketing director. But I see nothing on their website about protecting businesses from lawsuits by blind people. Where are the lawsuit protections.

Me. I. Fucking. Hate. Accessibility!

#Accessibility #A11y

Had a friend beg me to get on Substack, again. I tried to say I will not do so for a whole, heh, host of reasons. So to all, here is my RSS feed. Share it with someone that likes blogs about living an anxious life as a blind person. Fiction and creative Nonfiction. I have a podcast with blog post narrations for those that cannot, or choose not to, read. https://sightlessscribbles.com/feed.xml #RSS #IndieWeb

There are clients that can fill those out, but generally, for best access, try to keep them low, like maybe 2. If there are too many emojies in a username, I, for one, will just mute you for a while or scroll on by because it took 20 minutes to listen to your display name. Like I said, there are clients that filter those out too, but always good to keep in mind, what if someone were reading you Fedi over the phone. Would you want to listen to someone describe 5 emoji? @Stomata @FediTips

If anyone wants to give the virtual debit card service Privacy.com a try, my referral link is below and yes we both get something, I just can't remember what that is! Although, if your bank has virtual debit cards, go with their native solution instead. https://app.privacy.com/join/FFPW2 #Privacy #Security

@modulux OOH! I just commented on one of their Github issues, assuming they didn't fix it because the issue was open and I was using an older version so will certainly download QBitTorrent again to give it a try again!

Other blind people, what torrent client do you use on Windows?

@terrasays @alice I kinda agree. I would rather people share links to their websites, RSS feeds, lengthy indie blog posts then read it on here.

Who in the ever loving hell Todd editors at these publications how to hyperLink? I just absolutely hate how mainstream journalism links anything. If there’s a lot of links, they do this thing where, every. Word. Is. A. Different. Link. Links lead to other articles rather than the actual source of whatever and they never almost link credible blogs either. Gods, I am so glad I left journalism. Bloggers know how to link far better. This is another reason why blogs are sanctuaries that the Internet does not deserve. #IndieWeb #Journalism

SADC is working on it, wink. https://socialaudiodescription.com/vigilante-audio-description/ @Shelly

Where do I find Portable NVDA? At least, the one you are talking about? I tried looking through their repositories and I see a torrent client, blind RSS, and other things. @kaveinthran @sclower @Bri @serrebi