What is a writer?
A miserable little pile of words!


Call me MP or Miz


Fiction attempted, with various levels of success.


Yes, I do need help, thank you for noticing.



aetataureate
@aetataureate
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arachnixe
@arachnixe

The accessibility request from last year languishes in the planning phase while the sexy audio post feature goes from request to implemented and rolled out in a month.

And this is just my biggest accessibility issue with the site. It's also one that's extremely small scope compared to some others neglected in the support forum. (Not to diminish the need for the other accessibility features either, which should be implemented even if they require more effort.) What does it take to get some of this feature energy directed toward improved accessibility?

Like, I get that they're a small team. It's this prioritization that makes me sad. To use the wheelchair ramp metaphor, it's seeing all your friends recommending their cool leftist co-op grocery. But the Walmart has a wheelchair ramp while the co-op has stairs. Meanwhile, your friends are implying that there's something wrong with the moral compass of anyone shopping at the Walmart for any reason...or, when you try to bring it up, responding with incredulous anger. "What do you mean this place feels hostile to your needs? They support trans people!"


MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

not to belabour a fucking point, but somehow my fucking useless fucking spasming thumb managed to log me out of the site in one instant


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in reply to @aetataureate's post:

Yeah...

More generally, I have come to hate the phrase "minimum viable product," because in web development that inevitably means a website that isn't viable for a bunch of disabled people. None of the major frameworks, companies, boot camps, or degrees focus on accessibility, so it becomes something "extra" to make web sites actually useable for a sizable portion of the population.