#topic: inaccessibility

[editblr-confessions]

why is every person on editblr either

an inc*st shipper

pro genocide

A boundary breaker

Extremely strict anti-endo

Terrible at editing

a person who has a typing quirk I can't read

A gross person in general

Or doesn't exist

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[freesiadotcom]

any time i remember that trump supporters are in any way associated with christianity i feel fcking insane

[sillydex45]

THE RAMPS ARE TOO FUCKING STEEP ON THESE GYMS.

THEY JUST SLAPPED A BANDAID OVER A LEAKING TANK PRETTY MUCH. HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO GET UP THESE ON A WHEELCHAIR.

*growls* IM SOMEWHAT OF AN ANGEL OF DARKNESS ALLY…..DISABLED PEOPLE….YOU HAVE MY SWORD!!!!! 🗡️

[spursthatjinglejanglejingle]

The semester ends tomorrow and my professor still hasn't graded my FIRST essay from OCTOBER btw

[sweetfessions]

You don't need to go on a hiatus because you feel bad about making a mistake. Having an inaccessible blog is bad, yes, but you don't need to leave forever. You can just add Prin text. It isn't some massive sin that you have to leave forever about or post about what a terrible person you are.

I've seen so many blogs start talking about how horrible and disgusting they are just because they realized their blog isn't very accessible. I have seen blogs make multiple posts insulting themselves over this.

And I mean this as politely as possible, stop whining and just edit your posts, it's that simple. And making multiple posts about "oh my blog is inaccessible I'm such a horrible person I'm sorry" in a row, stopping and then making the same posts months later just feels like you're trying to gain pity.

You don't need to make it into some big thing, you insulting yourself isn't going to make my screen reader work better or make fonts any less hard for me to read. Just put in the effort to be better, stop using fonts, provide plain text and image ids, and that's what matters. And I'm pretty sure most people agree that actually taking steps to improving your blog's accessibility is way more helpful than just beating yourself up over stuff.

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[r3golith2]

I don't think people really talk about this, but sites like Artfight that allow full customization are so inaccessible.

I'm not saying that it should be banned or anything, but a lot of people choose low contrast colors to theme their profile after. Or they have flashing lights everywhere. I wholeheartedly believe that disabled artists should be able to participate without fear of having their symptoms triggered by looking at someone's profile.

[beatcroc]

Getting bad abt not tagging art again simply because so much of it has been fandom drivel recently [by which i mean the past two years][and this is not stopping any time soon] and I don't want to clutter my art tag with just an endless wall of that so im gonna try to. Have a split art tag again. I did in the past to delineate sketches and big stuff but I was terrible at maintaining it and the nature of what and how I draw shifted quite a bit so I eventually merged them anyway. The difference this time is it's completely arbitrary and I just put stuff under either based on how much i like it

[anarcho-masochist]

I need to finally admit that I only have so much time to write and thus need to decide & commit to writing one particular thing instead of researching everything forever in the hopes that I will one day have time to write All the things. You have no idea how nuanced my internal discussions on the topic have gotten at this point, though. The next post will be a poll on what to write or post about first.

[soup-mother]

Everything you said about hostile web design applies to House of Leaves yet ableist lit dorks call it a masterpiece, even though it’s deliberately designed to be inaccessible to the blind despite a blind man being one of the main characters. How much sympathy can an author have for a character when they exclude those like him from being able to experience their art?

yea no fr. I'm not familiar enough with house of leaves to have a super good reply about the book itself but i do know what the book is like and yea. basically every search for accessibility was just like "how easy is this book to approach and understand?" and not like actual accessibility.

and the few people actually talking about physical accessibility were doing that thing where they just assume there's braille versions (and ones that you could get your hands on) or that an ebook of it would magically work with a screen reader.

sorry i didn't have more to say, but thank you for your input on this!

[touhoutivations]

"Heya, just popping in for your medicine delivery- ah, you're wondering why I'm not wearing my usual disguise? Well, Eirin and I kinda agreed that it was making me look more suspicious than usual...and while some of the village don't want to take medicine from a youkai, our medicines aren't anything to hide from." "You shouldn't feel ashamed about taking what you need in order to function, and we shouldn't add to that stigma. It'd be ridiculous if I had to dress up like a bandit to give you bandages if you hurt yourself, right?"

"...I know that 'the lunatic rabbit' probably isn't the best to advertise this, but you deserve to be loved, cared for, survive and thrive- no matter what illness or neurodivergency you have. Change and acceptance isn't easy, especially deprogramming from...harmful stereotypes and ideology- believe me, I've been through all that craziness." "It's probably taken you a really long journey to find this out, or accept this, or take steps to treatment- maybe you're still ironing out the big questions- but I'm really proud of you for it. So keep taking those steps, to become more 'you' than ever. Advocate for yourself, and know that there's people that can help you through- even if it takes a while to find them." "That's all from me today, make sure you take some food with them too, alright?"

[editblr-confessions]

I really wish editblr was more accessible for visually impaired people honestly. We're visually impaired but we also like using rentry graphics and stuff because yay!!! cool thing!!!!! But half the time we can't read the typing quirks and stuff and people refuse to add plain text and it's just. Bwuh :/

(Not sending this on anon so we remember we sent this whoops)

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[highlineeheartbeat]

historically inaccurate, over sexualized teen period drama tv shows are the bane of my existence

[privateerstudies]

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[phenoob]

political/historical rpf is special to me because the moral quandary (if there is one) isn't so much "am I respecting these peoples' boundaries?" as "should these awful people be allowed to fuck??"

[sweetfessions]

editblr PLEASEE learn what eyestrain is challenge!!! the gradient map trend has set editblr back to the dark ages smh my head except it’s not even the dark ages it’s the BRIGHT ages and I CANT SEE good lord

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[fagatakonin]

One of the 1st things i want to do after i get a job is buy persona 5 on steam ....