all i'm asking for is that people tag their posts or provide alt text or anything so that their posts are still accessible to me. this isn't hard.
tag your posts as #yingletspeak or #typing quirk, or provide alt text. cohost is not accessible for me when none of my friends bother to do this.
you can mute me if you don't like it!
but like... there's mutuals and friends engaging in it! i don't want to be barred from staying updated on my friends. i don't want to mute people i care about. this is not a good solution; it just centers yourself and not the needs of disabled people.
but it gives me species euphoria!
does that really have more priority than not hurting others, many of whom are disabled? i'm technically a therian too and there are many parts of the human experience that therians take for granted or even happily enjoy because they bring me convenience or because they help further the therian cause. wolves can't use computers, but without therians using computers we wouldn't even be here like this. sometimes this stuff is beneficial! and that's not a hard decision to make. so then why is changing a single letter around, tagging a post, or providing a copy without the typing quirk so much more difficult somehow?
you can install a browser addon!
why do disabled people have to fix the accessibility issues other people are intentionally causing. why do we get blocked when we ask simple questions about this stuff. like genuinely, i and several others just want this site to be usable and to not have to let go of our friends just to make it usable, and as a result of pointing this stuff out we just get blocked?? i thought this was supposed to be a space that was friendly for disabled people, where we could at least have a conversation about this and address issues like these.
i just get irrationally upset whenever i see yingletspeak now. on top of the fact that it is extremely difficult to read for me and it makes me sad that i have to put in so much extra effort just to stay updated on my friends. i don't want to get upset when i browse this website. ofcourse, being upset is my problem, and i have to solve that problem by filtering the content out so i don't get upset! by muting tags that contain the content!!
tags which nobody fucking bothers to use!!!!!!
so at this point i'd rather just stop using cohost entirely and i hate that. i really hate that. i love this platform but this is the only decent way i can solve this problem for myself because nobody is apparently kind enough to put in a little more effort to make it usable for everyone.
