#visual disability

[dhddmods]

Ya'll know the drill, its design time!

Everyone is free to use this design on shirts, stickers, pins, whatever they'd like, as long as they are using it for inclusive purposes! Just don't claim it as your own, please.

Transparent version:

Version with background, for viewing purposes:

The symbols go as follows:

-Neurodivergent symbol -Disability flag -Sunflower for invisible disabilities

Row one:

-Paw print, meant to represent service animals & emotional support animals -Pill bottles & a needle, for people who need medication for their condition -Mutism symbol -Sensory ear muffs -Hearing disability symbol -Visually impaired symbol -White cane (a cane for the people with visual impairments)

Row two:

-General walking cane -Multiple point cane/quad cane -Seat cane -Axillary (underarm) crutches -Lofstrand (forearm) crutches

Row three:

-Gutter crutches/platform crutches -Standard walker -Two-wheel walker/rollator -Three-wheel walker/rollator or Four-wheel walker/rollator -Knee-walker/Knee-scooter

Row four:

-Mobility scooter -Generic wheelchair -Tilt-in-space or reclining wheelchair -Power wheelchair

Row five:

-Prosthetic arm -Prosthetic arm with hook hand -Prosthetic peg leg -Prosthetic runner leg -Prosthetic leg

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I support equality always

Attraction is individual, not societal

Queerness is natural

Gender and sex are spectrums

Racial equality matters

Support all neurodivergence

[stabbysorrows]

I am begging you, if you are a blog that posts a lot of photos/screenshots (even more if it's most or all you post: LEARN TO DO IMAGE DESCRIPTION

Either within the post (ie. [ID: .... End ID]) or as the alt text.

Which brings me to my next point: DON'T ACTIVATE THE ALT TEXT IF YOU DON'T PUT ANYTHING IN IT.

Alt text is not automated, you have to input the description. If you're not gonna do it, don't use it.

This is specially important if you are posting information for example about the genocide in gaza or the luigi mangioni case. Disabled people still need to access that information, still NEED that information.

Image descriptions and alt texts are so important for a lot of people with visual disabilities. But if making this site more accesible for blind folks is not enough to convince you... let me remind you that accesibility helps everyone. Bad internet and the image won't load... image description. Images get removed for "violating policy"... IMAGE DESCRIPTION.

People with sensory disabilities have the right to access information, even if that information is just a somewhat funny meme.

[sister-lucifer]

dark yellow-green, dark green, dark green-cyan dividers reading

"visually disabled, be patient. be kind"

dark cyan, dark cyan-blue, dark blue dividers reading

"mentally disabled, be patient, be kind"

dark blue-purple, dark purple, dark purple-pink dividers reading

"physically disabled, be patient, be kind"

dark pink, dark pink-red, dark red dividers reading

"chronically ill, be patient, be kind"

dark red-orange, dark orange, dark orange-yellow dividers reading

"chronically fatigued, be patient, be kind"

and a dark yellow divider reading

"chronically disabled, be patient, be kind"

🌈Assorted Disability Userboxes🌈

please like, reblog, & credit if you use!

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[efangamez]

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[thecorvidforest]

it’s really disheartening that the only tumblr blogs i follow that consistently add alt text/image descriptions to photos on posts and reblogs are ones run by visually impaired folks. even most of the leftist blogs & non-VI disability-centered blogs i follow aren’t consistently adding adequate IDs to photos, or even tagging them as undescribed so they can be filtered out.

like, how am i meant to believe your leftism/advocacy includes all disabled people when you run a leftism or disability-focused blog that isn’t even accessible? do you really care about all disabled folks, or just the convenient ones?

obligatory disclaimer that this doesn’t apply to people who literally aren’t capable of doing it. but let’s be honest, that’s not most of you.

[kkpup]

Error's vision is maybe not the best

I found its become increasingly hard to draw exactly how it is I see the world the more i try so i settled for this meh outcome lest i frustrate myself.

[Rambling + normal and no text version under the cut]

I'm in the rare position to say I'm genuinely unique and I will most likely live my entire life span without meeting a single other person like myself.

That always makes me feel a little bit lonely, that people around me may have similar-ish experiences but it'll never be real understanding. With my other issues I can atleast find solace in the internet, read about characters with the same disabilities, yk? But there isnt anything out there for this-

So i made it myself!! Error has that fucked up eyes juice(tm). I'd like to believe its why he likes outertale so much, because gods the stars are beautiful when I stop trying to force the images in place. Its like an everlasting water color painting wiped across the sky in a thousand different hues. He deserves that kind of simple pleasure, I think.

[tmascegg]

The teenage mutant turtles are a metaphor for visible disability because they look different and people immediately treat them as others. And they have a strong sense of alienation from most humans and it affects them in different ways. And they can’t live as normal humans and have to hide away in fear of judgement and when they don’t do that they are faced with threats and ridicule.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

I'm not gonna find this tweet because quite frankly I don't feel like going on Twitter

Aside from the fact that this tweet is classist, not everyone can afford lasik, and lasik has been known to cause issues with your eyes, and it's a temporary solution (your eyes will worsen as you get older anyways).

This tweet really ignores how much the optometrist industry is just in general a really shitty and gaslighting industry for people that have issues beyond just astigmatism and vision issues.

And you're probably thinking "Like that's only a small fraction of people. What about everyone else?" That's kind of the fucking issue. I've had shit vision my ENTIRE life. Literally. Was so fucking blind when I was born that it caused long lasting damage in the nerves in my eyes.

Which means I've been to a lot of optometrists, and if you have any vision problems beyond what's seen as "common" (near sighted or near sighted with an astigmatism) they don't know shit.

And I could go into shit like how none of the optometrists thought to point out that I probably don't have depth perception until I was 23. But that's a niche issue regarding a disability I have due to my vision being so shit when I was so young.

Let's go into an issue that's less common. My prescription was +5.00 or worse my entire life. Plus I have an astigmatism. And a lot of contact companies don't make prescriptions for such severe farsightedness with an astigmatism. (They make prescriptions for -5.00, but not +5.00)

Every time I go to the doctor they're like OH MY GAWDS YOUR CONTACT BRAND IS SO BAD ITS LIKE YOUR EYES ARE SUFFOCATONG I MUST GET YOU A NEW ONE. And every single year I'm like "Trust me. You don't have any options in my prescription." And every time they're like OAH MAH GODS THEY MAKE ME EVERY YEAR LET MEH CHECK.

I'm like "Sure. Whatever."

Guess what? Last I actually checked 7 brands carry my prescription in monthly. A few carry my prescription in contacts that need to be changed every 2 weeks. But none of them carry my prescription in contacts that need to be changed every week or every day. (Which is apparently better or something. Idk.)

Why the fuck would I trust the doctors that gaslight me every year about what contacts I can use to suggest surgery for my eyes?

And that's not even getting into the very weird specific issues I have with my vision that eye doctors just.... shrug off... like they legit just ignore it. Like no matter what prescription they put me in I can always tell my vision doesn't match up to my peers even though I technically test 20/20.

(I know about the whole relax your eyes when you test thing. I literally tell my optometrist "Yo. Like this shit so blurry." And they just tell me that this is the best they can correct me to. Just try to focus my eyes more. This this isn't fucking normal.)

Idk. Ableds (derogatory) need to stop demanding disabled people get their shit fixed and instead ask "What the fuck is wrong with the system that these disabled people don't trust it to fix their shit?"

(Not everyone that wears glasses considers themselves disabled. If you don't consider yourself disabled, good for you. But my vision literally can't be fixed to match my peers, so... not to mention glasses can cost people hundreds of dollars and if your vision is shit enough the weight of the lenses can seriously wear and tear on your frames and your face.)

-fae

[grandpa-spooks]

Where are all my visually impaired baddies at

(Able-bodied people with glasses, this is not for you. Visual disabilities only please <3)

[jauntybones]

I think there should be a lesson when you're really young in every classroom, detailing every disorder or condition that you could have, no matter how uncommon.

Like I have a condition called visual snow (makes everything look static-y) that literally changes nothing about my life except minorly changes my perception of the world, and I didn't know people didn't see static everywhere until I was a mid to late teen.

So we should have a class for young kids that's like "hey, does your reality look like this? You might have this condition!" Also I think it might help diagnose medical and mental disorders earlier in life, which is an all around win.

[efangamez]

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[urfavisdisabled]

This is Azaka Yukiko from Love's in sight!

Azaka has amblyopia and uses a cane to walk! She is partially blind and also cannot see color very well. She is a very independent person and isn't afraid to advocate for herself.

Negative stereotypes? None! Many describe Azaka as some of the best, if not the best, disability representation they have ever seen! To top this all off she is not infantilized by the narrative and is given a unique character outside of her disability.

[snailjelly]

jelly’s intro!

- 19!

- She/Him/Xey/Jel

- my kins vary but they are siren, mermaid, otter, selkie, harbor seal, harp seal, leopard seal, thresher shark, blue shark, (basically any shark), jellyfish, and jaguar!

- i am a practicing bruja / curandera and am learning to reconnect with my ancestors!

- Im genderfluid and lesbian and identify with some xenogenders

- I am visually impaired and and white cane user so please bare with me

- I have a lot of aesthetics such as goth, sirencore and cutegore, but I love anything dark and/or cute!

- I love marine biology! My favorite animals are sharks and jellyfishes as well as all cephalopods!

-I play the bass guitar! I adore metal and classic rock but also indie and pop! (I can listen to anything)

- English and Spanish speaker

(Please don’t mention hospital and surgeries in detail around me!)

[ghost-jester-sys]

"I care about accessibility" motherfuckers when you ask them to make shit readable and possible to view with a screenreader

[ Image ID: A light brown cat with darker stripes and spots in a car. He has both right paws on the shoulder of the person taking the photo. His back left paw is on the seat of the car and his left front paw is out of frame against the window of the car door. The cat has a surprised expression on its face with its mouth wide open as well as its eyes. He is looking at something behind the camera. // End Image ID ]

[lakecountylibrary]

[ID: The Disability Pride flag /ID]

Happy Disability Pride Month! Here's your reminder that the Indiana State Library, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), provides the Talking Book and Braille Library FREE to Indiana residents who can't read standard print due to disability.

They will mail you materials, including braille ereaders, large print and braille books, and specialized audio players. They also have a digital library that you can use on your own device.

You can check them out and apply for services at https://www.in.gov/library/tbbl/!

[liamnottherose]

Hey, just a question. Why is everybody using id (image descriptor) written under the pictures on their posts instead of the option of ALT (alternative descriptor) on the images themselves? Does the alt descriptor work poorly or...?