recursive š³ļøāšReally hate this idea of video chat software faking eye contact. Not because of presenting something that doesn't reflect reality, but because its reifying a neurotypical model of what is right and good in how humans present themselves
Claire has left the building@recursive tbh itās not so much intended to change gaze to match when intentionally looking a different direction, not sure it actually does since i havenāt tried it, and if it correctly changed the video to indicate what you were actually looking at in the virtual space of the other participant i would be fine with it
@recursive tbh it should be processing turned on on the receiving side to accomodate that personās preferences as well, as strange as that sounds at first
@recursive personally I have no problem with seeing people on video looking off slightly to another direction but I can imagine some folks having issues. unfortunately these are also folks who probably wouldnāt go near an accessibility feature because they feel like they are ānormalā and donāt need it.
@clairely_inexplicable omg, i'm so tired of people's internalized ableism like that, trying to get, especially older people, to try out accessibility features is so hard... i've been using some accessibility features for a decade despite nominally being non-disabled, there's so many nice features
@recursive besides always turning on Zoom the "show higher contrast" option for macOS makes the desktop feel like retro Mac OS in a very satisfying way