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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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Stop trying to upgrade disabled people's body when the problem is your design!
@WeirdWriter argues that the tech industry needs to stop trying to sell useless expensive gadgets no disabled person wants, or can afford, and start fixing actual accessibility barriers, like bad code, and poorly designed infrastructures.
sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dongle/
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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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This hurts, because, it's true: "Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage."
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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist
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@stephaniewalter It's also very different problems, people working on sign language translation are aware of problems to solve for deaf people but may not be aware of the problems and existing solutions for blind people. Accessibility is a huge space, and people who don't work on web solutions are likely not aware of what you are describing. And a lot of web solutions suck because the tooling doesn't take accessibility into account, and devs have to be trained for it specifically, so it is left as an afterthought. I don't think blaming people working on adjacent solutions will change that.
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Devin Prater ​:blind:​ @pixelate@tweesecake.social
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@Varpie @stephaniewalter The quote was from an article, I don't have the link off hand.
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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter@front-end.social
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@Varpie I am confused, what do you mean by "adjacent" solutions here?
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