"folks here have a lot of lumber, just build yourself a ramp" is never gonna be a good answer, even if it's perfectly adequate for the technically-minded person you just thought of.
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we don't have a good ramp yet but we can, at least, build a shitty one until the good one is done. and ask them to please communicate better about when that's going to happen
i just get exasperated at folks who respond to discussion about a need by just pointing at the tools. lots of people eager to show you how they pulled themselves over the gap, and so could you!
by the nature of the workaround, there's no way to install the fix for someone. the stopgap always requires the person in need to be able to navigate the tools, to make the fix work, to accomodate the fix.
it's the fallacy of overfamiliarity with the challenge, assuming people who share your difficulties also share your skills in navigating them, or even know the terms to understand them.
there was a lot of talk recently about how if a certain class of user needs to do more to keep the same level of access to the service, that service isnt inclusionary of them- until and unless these user fixes are as simple as "click on a link and do nothing else" the barrier isn't crossed, just shortened.
bootstraps by the very same name.
i don't know if it's possible to properly balance "the site is missing important accessibility features" with "the site has approximately three coders, at least one of whom is disabled enough that it severely impacts their ability to work on it, and they have no money to hire more." i don't know what the answer here is. they could communicate better but communication takes effort too.
it's a fucked situation and i suspect it's one where posting about it, in the way that people tend to, can only make the situation worse
it might or might not be possible (im leaning towards the latter) but i think it's easy or at least attractive to consider the failing morally neutral.
there's been a series of choices, not the least of which was the choice to open the website to users at all, which were made and have led to where it is now.
things take effort!
sometimes things aren't fit for purpose!
my beef is less and less with the site staff (im used to internet services overpromising and underdelivering on everything) and more with the people trying to claim that these things are inevitable and just have to be broken for Reasons, for now, and/or that since a power user can avoid the symptom, that complaining about it is Bad Actually.
like i think the site is missing some important stuff, some of which qualify as accessibility features for me, but if i posted angrily about it all i accomplish is that i get a whole bunch of other people riled up and make four employees of ASSC kind of miserable
like it feels extremely liberal of me to even mention but fucking. organizing and making an open letter might actually be more productive
as the ground zero post for this week's headache sorta mentions, that open letter is a feature request that's been stamped as "planned" for 12 months.
discourse isn't a 'next step' from that it's just symptomatic.
e: also, the concept of "posting angrily" is completely asymmetrical, and as far as i've seen it's a label applied to marginalized people when they're less-than-thankful for crumbs. Posting doesn't need to be productive or respectful to be worth reading imo.
i suspect that, given everything, ASSC employees have not been able to put the 4x12 person-months of work into the site that people generally assume. like they also gotta run a business and so on.
i'm familiar with a variant of what jae's got, maybe more than most people; my dad's had ME/CFS for the past... decade and a half, or more, I guess. as post-viral syndromes, severe long COVID and ME/CFS share a broad constellation of symptoms. it's ruined his life. he can barely do anything.
and that with major RSI on top. the fact that they're still working on the site at all is impressive.
ive got some complex feelings about this aspect of it that are probably best left to develop rather than air.
obviously there is structurally nothing they can do about being down one EFT... but that structure was laid inadequately from the beginning, by the same hands.
the short of it is that there's no point in having a union or a co-op if you're literally too few to support your own falls.
something something marx something post-capitalist something, yknoe?
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anyway lemme know when you're out of spoons ill lock these comments so our beautiful socratic dialogue can't be ruined by "hot takes" /s
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