#sight impaired

[the-delta-quadrant]

here are some things that would help me as a blind person regarding online accessibility (mobile for me):

- all apps should display all text sizes (iphone goes up to 310%)

- all apps should display bold text if it's turned on in the system settings

- there should be a standard for text size; if my text size is 100% across all apps, then an instagram post, a toot, a text message etc. should all be the same size, no more "instagram and tumblr are always slightly smaller for some reason" bs

- an app's formatting (such as buttons, alerts etc) needs to be compatible with large text! large text doesn't help me if all the buttons are suddenly overlapping or i can't get out of an alert window because they forgot to program the ability to scroll. no more overlapping shit, no more missing shit, no more "i can't get out of this window without closing the app and changing my text size"

- usernames, channel names, all word and sentences should be fully visible even with large text! i don't know what channel "# ge..." is on discord. find a way to make it visible, either make it multiple lines, give me the ability to side scroll or make it move like a spotify song title

- make sure things that shouldn't be affected by large text aren't! if i need to scan a barcode and my large text settings make it unrecognisable to the machine, that's unhelpful

- all apps should have a light mode and a dark mode! certain conditions make it easier to see light mode, others make it easier to see light mode

- dark mode should be as high-contrast as light mode, i.e. white on black, not white on dark grey

- probably have other options beyond regular dark and light mode

- on apps that let you customise your profile a lot visually, give the option to view it in your phones' settings, i.e. if someone's got a dark red on black serif-font tumblr, i wanna be able to make it into a white on black plain font tumblr

- alt text should be accessible without a screenreader

- there should probably be a dedicated field for video descriptions too

- apps that give hashtags a different colour than the rest of the text should let you choose the colour

- all apps should let you view someone's profile picture in full size

- this one is specific to instagram: let us fucking zoom in normally! why do i have to do finger gymnastics just to stay zoomed in and read text on a picture? the zoom should work the same way it does in my photo library and literally everywhere else

most of these shouldn't be that hard and they would make my life a hell of a lot easier. i'm tired of running into issues because i'm too blind to read regular size text.

i WISH it was as simple as "describe your images" and "no fancy fonts", which is something people can easily choose to do to make things a little more accessible, and if they don't, i can unfollow and surround myself with people who post accessible stuff.

but all of the things i listed are things done my developers and not regular users, it's stuff i can't just ignore by surrounding myself with people who care about blind accessibility if the people who create the spaces don't care about blind accessibility.

[cowlicks-and-curls]

The great reddit blackout is happening today to protest reddits plan to charge third party apps outrageous prices to continue to make reddit accessible to people with disabilities and those who moderate large subs for free using bots to keep the communities safe and free from hate. Some threads are going dark until the 14th, some till the end of the month when it's officially decided whether the increased prices will go through, and some are going dark forever.

Don't let corporate greed win. Stand with your community, stand with your disabled friends, stand with those who create a space for those who have none and don't let them fall

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

I follow tons of disability/chronic illness/mental health tags and I keep seeing memes or infographics without alt text or image IDs. This is not okay for content of any subject matter, but its beyond ridiculous for these spaces in particular. You can’t call yourself an advocate if you are declining to use accessibility tools like this. There are absolutely no excuses, especially with the technologies we have now. Most devices can read and copy the text out of any image, for example.

Basically if it’s not worth including everyone, it’s not worth posting. Make it accessible or don’t post it. Thank you

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

🤡🤡🤡

They don't care how excited and grateful every one of these 1,000 people were, or how much better their lives would now fare.

They would literally rather they all remain blind than suggest or admit that not being blind might lead to a higher quality of life than being blind.

The point isn't that MrBeast actually did anything wrong, it's that envy and resentment compells them to try and tear down even the most altruistic deed. There isn't anything so noble, so good that anyone could ever do that clowns like this still wouldn't manage to invent a problem, just so they could pretend to be more morally virtuous or enlightened. Zero-effort way of being superior, without actually doing anything.

Virtue signaling creates low-grade sociopaths.

[aeliana-882]

People are so much nicer on Tumblr (most of the time) than on other Socials

Like I can complain here and people just support and they don't try to tell me what I did wrong or try to "fix" my issue

[autisticsupervillain]

Robot Boyfriend with sight problems whose head is shaped like an Xbox Kinect. Is that anything?

[tauon07]

if you make an image description just like "image" or "screenshot of text" you are a poopy and i hate you

[puppuptrixii]

No. My eyes can't function without these glass lenses in front of my face. Thank you.

[sheltiechicago]

The Blind Who See

Photographer: Sergio Aparicio OKOBÉ

Company/Studio: Okobé

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS™

[soong-type-notinuse]

throwback to episode 52 about hard of sight erasure.

[indigo-brainspark]

ive been sight impaired since i was eight, so have both of my siblings. and my dad. prescription lenses for everyone. except my mother. and as she grows older, she's begun to need reading glasses. and y'all. everyone in this house is watching in horror at the way she treats spectacles.

[the-delta-quadrant]

i need the time blindness people and the gender blindness people to finally understand that you're not fucking exempt from

"stop using vision impairment as a metaphor"

[bxnnie-bxwl]

I've actually also thought about withered bonnie as glambon's older brother in an anthro au before, the idea I had was that he was gonna have a real big burn scar on his face he got during a house fire as a kid, sorta like this dog

(In case you're wondering this guys name is Taka and he works as a therapy dog for burn victims now ❤️)

I see!! oh poor withered bonnie.. in my au he has scars and lost his sight in an accident as young, also loosing his left arm. Your idea is so good, thank you for sharing!!

(and such a good Taka ❣️❣️)

[the-smol-machine]

i spent so much of my life convincing myself i didn't need audio description, but i'm like 80% sure the reason i can barely remember any of the shows/movies i watched as a kid is because i didn't ever know what the fuck was happening on the screen.

let this be your reminder that accessibility tools are there for a reason. it doesn't matter if you think you can live without them. if they make your life better, then you're using them right.

[onstoryladders]

"it was stated multiple times that wills love is UNREQUITED" and then this is the statement

[trashpandacraft]

i really wish that people here on the 'accessibility is so so so important' website would figure out how to use alt text.

i know adding it is an additional barrier to posting, but i'm hard pressed to believe that 95% of people here are unable to ever clear that barrier. it's not that hard to add a brief description of the photo--imo anything is better than nothing, and for many pictures, brief is better than a ten-paragraph description.

i know for a long time tumblr was bad about supporting it, especially for photo posts, but they have pretty robust support since about when automattic took over, and it's a real fucking bummer to me that so few people have adopted it.

if you'd like to see alt text but you're not sure how:

on mobile: if an image has alt text, there's a little button that says alt in the lower left corner of the image. most do not.

on desktop: you can inspect image etc but tbh the modern web makes it a pain. xkit rewritten has a toggle that shows it underneath the image, though, which makes it very easy.