🌕 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.
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.
Donty