RJul 1, 2023
🌕 Chelsea 🌻📚
After a day of running into multiple accessibility barriers while attempting to do multiple online things, I just needed to come here to say thank you to everyone on Mastodon who participates in creating a small corner where I don't feel like an afterthought. I appreciate the dedication to alt text and video descriptions so, so much, and I know many people have already said it, but I don't think it can ever be overstated.
Jun 30, 2023 at 11:25pmWeb
Show thread🌕 Chelsea 🌻📚Jun 30, 2023

Normally I'm willing to force my way into spaces that don't prioritize me, because that's the only way to exist as a citizen of the internet when you're blind. I'll use inaccessible apps and I'll share posts with undescribed images and I'll click unlabeled buttons just to see what they do. I have to if I want to participate in online culture.

But some days I don't have it in me, and this is one of those days, and it's indescribably nice to have a place like this that doesn't expect me to.

Show threadAral BalkanJul 1, 2023
@greengaybles 💕
Show threadqueer as in fuck your bordersJul 1, 2023

@greengaybles I'm sorry you've had a frustrating day online.

(And I'm sorry the other reply I can see to this is kinda cripspiration.)

💚

Show threadDontyJul 1, 2023

@greengaybles
For us sighted people, we have that equivalent 'sighted privilege' where we don't really think what a world might be like without it.

Being somewhere that naturally draws your attention to simple ways of enhancing the experience is a good start to us all having a better community.

Show threadDontyJul 1, 2023

@greengaybles @gutenberg_org

On a side note, another alternative 'sighted' perspective can be read in Country of the Blind by H G Wells which has a bit of a twist on the usual 'one eyed man is king' sort of take.

Under rated short stories!

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11870

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg
Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 1, 2023
@greengaybles that's so great to hear, it makes me happy
Show threadColin the MathmoJul 1, 2023

@greengaybles Sending warm fuzzies ... I hope you can always find a place to relax and be yourself.

You don't know me, and there's neither reason nor obligation to reply ... please just accept my very best wishes.

Show threadClaudius LinkJul 1, 2023
@greengaybles
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Show threadRamsHornStudiosJul 1, 2023
@greengaybles I was lucky enough to work with someone at an online learning company that put a priority on accessibility and I've tried to carry that forward with me.
Show threadNatalyaDJul 2, 2023

@greengaybles I have written about the psychoemotional disablism experienced by constant erection of barriers in our way to access as disabled people.

I am sorry so many places are barrier-riddled but also glad that you have spaces that are not. One day I hope we'll be able to create more better spaces.

Show threadMar :🌻Jul 1, 2023
@greengaybles That is a great way to say how great this site is.
Show threadGordon J HoltslanderJul 1, 2023
@greengaybles I want to recognize more ways that individuals can collaborate and cooperate to make public venues work for their communities rather than leave these opportunities as venues of corruption and ideas held hostage Cooperative online media pockets?