Puneet Singh SinghalOffering written materials in various formats (large print, Braille, digital) is an easy, impactful way to be more inclusive.
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PhotosymbolsHereβs a blog I wrote this weekend about a website we created during the early pandemic days. Hope you find it interesting. #LearningDisability #EasyRead #AccessibleInformation #Coronavirus
Keep keeping safe
We shed a small tear this weekend as we shut down the Keep Safe website we created during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic. It was March 2020 and everywhere was locking down. Information about this new virus was thin on the ground and none of it was Easy Read. At Photosymbols HQ we hatched a plan. We would ma
PonyOfModeration π³οΈβπππͺπΊTag this.. confusing tags are potentially inaccessible information that is unintentionally excluding. But how will I get people on here to notice that without a tag...
It's tends to exclude many of us dyslexic people as, for example, I can't remember letter patterns of more than 2 letters and even then I will reverse them. So a 4 letter combo of letters will, initially, be 4 ever-jumbling letters and that's a hard thing to transfer to a search engine to look up...
A suggestion please, try to avoid coming up with loads of new variant acronym tags without finding a way to set out clearly, and readily found, what they mean. Yes, it's tricky when trying to capture a phrase, so best efforts not rules.
Trying to write tags is hard enough especially as they are best in #CamelCase and the suggestions are all in lowercase.
Having #ADHD makes this harder too as I struggle even with that well known acronym.
Thanks xx
#Dyslexia #Tags #AccessibleInformation #Barriers #DyslexiaFriendly #Acronym #disabilityrights
@PanickedFoodie this could be great, thank you. Some super straightforward, step by step, instructions about how to move to the new server would be handy.
I think too, it'd be good to be able to say why it's a good idea for us disabled bods to want to be in here via a specific server. That's because lots of us, me at least, will have been really baffled by what the whole server thing is, and just thought sod-it, I'll just pick one and join. And that's partly because there's lots of confusion and, among it, advice saying that, actually, it doesn't really matter.
So, that being the case and because I expect moving isn't so easy (especially with dyslexia and the cumbersome profile etc names we have in here) it'd be good to know it's worth that leap.
I hope that doesn't sound negative at all - I wished there had been such a group when I joined. I'm only just beginning to get to grips with it and I'm nervous of breaking what I've just about made.
It'd be really good too to get a handle on principles like - nothing about us without us - and fighting off, with sharp implements anyone who suggests 'fixing' my neurodivergence.
Plus - tips n hints for low-jargon hints and tips for making info more accessible.
Generally, the whole system for getting into and ahead Mastodon is riddled with tech words and suits people who deal well with nurdy things - there will be many of us who have different relationships with detail and attention, who will be being baffled to the point of not getting in at all.