#just blind things

[razzek]

Speaking of blind things, today I saw someone write “no alt text” in their image description and that is just about the most insulting thing I’ve seen it used for. Just leave it blank if you don’t wanna describe, asshole! Unnecessary alt text blocks a screen reader from being able to try and interpret an image, so either describe it or don’t!

If you put a link in the alt text I will come to your house and throw my white cane through your window like a javelin. Don’t do that shit. Sighted people won’t see it and I literally can’t make use of it.

In good news, AccessiBe is finally getting the shit surd out of them for lying to customers and making the web worse with their shitty overlays and I am ecstatic. :D

[razzek]

Just gotta give a shoutout to @nimonabigbang for adding so much consistent image description in every post and having all the artists do the same! I haven't gotten to hang out with the community much due to life happening, but it is SO nice to just be included at all times in something like that. :) Thank you mods for considering all the fans in this! :)

[ducktumble]

Sometimes you have to swear and jump up and down like a child when your P O box has a slip of paper instead of your package, but you can’t because they closed 15 minutes before. so, you knock on the glass and explain how your visually impaired and had to ride the bus to get there.

[qu0rky]

y’all love to throw around the “you look like a sculpture/painting” comment but i’ve never seen someone fit this description as well as Assad Zaman. He’s like if a renaissance painting made a wish to become human. Botticelli personally had a hand in his creation. His tits fat and his whimsy plentiful. He’s got the “sad kicked puppy dog sorrowful little cosmic joke” look DOWN like it’s nobody’s business. The antithesis to iphone face. Stone tablet face. Perfect man, honestly.

[clumsypuppy]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[kelkilou]

I didn't take part in Summer Vees Week, and all the art was super cute - but whenever I saw the group drawn at an earth-like beach this is honestly all I could think about-

[razzek]

I'm disabled. There's stuff I quite need when I go outside. Folding cane, dog bags, dog water bowl, car placard, reusable grocery bags because the only really cunty thing my awesome state governor has done was make single use plastic bags illegal so stores are charging for the only goddamn bags with handles now, etc.

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

[theultimatefandomjumper]

i forgot to put this here but UUUUGGHHHHHHHHHH i can't not share

[homkamiro]

HEY DID YOU KNOW YOUR ART IS EXCELLENT AND YOUR LINEWORK IS STUNNING AND YOUR EXPRESSIONS ARE PEAK

HELLO??? AM I REAL IS THIS REAL??? THETRIGGEREDHAPPY IN MY ASK???????? I💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

dude i am SUCH a fan of your works you have NO idea, like I think if I hadn't read running blind that day i wouldn't be so fixated on speeding bullet right now. I reread nearly ALL of your fanfictions and I recommend you to every one of my friends. And seeing you here praising my art is just😭💥i need a minute

In a gratitude making a small comic based on that one moment from Little Things🗣️🗣️your dialogue writing is one of the best I've seen in YEARS and ngl I do plan someday making an animatic based on one of your fics perhaps...someday....and only if you're okay with that.....

[razzek]

Also humans need more than one kind of feedback, and especially in something like a vehicle going at 50 or more miles an hour, the driver Does Not need to be looking away from the road for even a second! Switches, dials, and keypads are important!

Touchscreens do not belong in cars

[mienar]

stillness in these waking hours

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[mxanigel]

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ I will enjoy my brainrot 🕯️ 🕯️ even when no one else does 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

[isawken]

listen. i am sorry to everyone having fun with using this term casually but i cannot hold my silence any longer. "jester's privilege" is not "heeehe i'm funee so i get away with things :3c". it's referring to the special niche role the jester held within royal society and, more specifically, their relationship to the king. jesters were not just like, the king's personal stand up comedian (some were, of course, peep my dude Roland the Farter). they also would often advise their king, be used as a diplomatic tool, sometimes even create and foster longstanding emotional relationships with them. so when you use the term "jester's privilege" you need to stop thinking of it as just "i use humor to get out of Situations". it's more like "the most powerful man in the land will forgive my transgressions because of our years' long Situationship"

[razzek]

Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall

Top 5 least useful

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest

This is a big ask and I will do my best to answer, with the caveat that I am just a single blind person with memory issues who doesn't remember everything my blind friends have told me. XD I am counting other people as tools in this list because a person with eyes sometimes is a handy tool for us. XD

Top 5 MOST useful tools for blind people just starting out 1. White cane 2. Blindness skills training through centers, government programs like Vocational Rehabilitation, Orientation & Mobility specialists, and anywhere you can find it 3. Membership with the National Talking Book Library aka NLS in your state (US); I think the UK is RNIB and Canada has one, not sure about other countries 4. Supportive family and friends and other blind people if you can find them 5. Screen reader (NVDA is free for Windows, iPhone has VoiceOver, Android uses TalkBack)

Top 5 most fave tools for the blind overall 1. White cane and/or guide dog 2. Text to speech, screen readers, audio books, audio described movies and tv 3. Accessible smart phones (often iPhone but Android is catching up) 4. Bump dots (stick-on tactile dots you put around your home) 5. Braille and refreshable braille displays/notetakers

Top 5 least useful 1. Sighted people inventing crap without talking to any blind people ("smart" canes, "smart" shoes, dangerous devices you hold in your only free hand that claim to tell you what's in front of you but actually don't, screen reader breaking "accessibility" overlays, etc...) 2. That ring which only shows one braille cell at a time (that's not how anyone reads) 3. Strangers giving/yelling vague directions ("It's right over there!", "Oh my god watch out for the stairs (that you are halfway down)!", giving directions to the guide dog who doesn't speak English or any language because they are a dog...) 4. Hot liquid measuring devices (always broken, the noise they make is so fucking loud it's caused me a lot more injury than just sticking my finger in the hot liquid, will wake up the neighbors) 5. All but one use case of AI claiming to be for the blind, at least as far as I've seen

Top 5 fucking weirdest and/or funniest 1. Ping pong balls (good for measuring hot liquids) 2. Funnels (really helpful for pouring liquids) 3. The lanyard strap that sticks to the back of your phone so you can wear it around your neck (looks silly, is incredibly useful) 4. White cane holster (yes it's a thing, I have at least three XD) 5. Things being organized Very Specifically (close your eyes and YOU try to find the remote after someone put it in a random place! XD)

[razzek]

It used to be necessary but the awesome thing about braille is that it uses contractions for some words and now all I have to do is write nec and I'm good. :D

anyone else have a word they absolutely cannot spell as in no matter how many times you read or write this particular random word your brain just absoltuely will NOT play ball for me its "genius" and "parallel"

[thebreadmantm]

The @ultramarinaa’s tma cat au has spread to the whiteboard. No one is safe. This is propaganda.

If my friends need to see me spiral into cat filled obsession then so dose my entire chemistry class

Another whiteboard gem my friend created

Garfield x Donky(ya know, from shrek) is otp