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chicating

Caught between "Come as you Are" and "Nothing Compares 2 you."
Also, Elon can kiss my fine crippled ass.

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ysabetwordsmith

>>Also, Elon can kiss my fine crippled ass.<<

Yeah, when I researched Twitter news for Twitter Exodus Continuing, I hit articles about the effect on disabled people and linked one of those.

This is why we need diversity in coding -- so people with disabilities can make their own things instead of hoping some abled person will make it for them, actually make it accessible, and not wreck it later on a whim.

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chicating

That would be cool... For someone who blogs this much, and has techly friends...I'm pretty hopeless, but I'd be happy to share suggestions and/or coin with people who can tech.

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ysabetwordsmith

I can fry technology, sometimes just by being near it, and the most I manage with code is thing like making italics or links in comments. 0_o But I know a lot of theoretical stuff -- I can outline a good website, for instance, if someone else writes the code, or describe how a program could solve a problem. The hard part is figuring out whether a given idea will fit into the code currently available on this planet.

If you know people who code, then maybe you could get some friends together to make something accessible. With Twitter sinking, and no close competitor, there's a hell of a market gap there. Someone could make a new social network to replace it. Imagine if that was built accessible from the ground up. Something like 20% of people have some disability, ore realistically, more because so many are not acknowledged. That's a pretty big market, and while they don't have much money, they do have high motivation to participate because disabilities tend to cut off access to other activities so there's less competition for their attention. Even a little bit adds up, if you made the network like Dreamwidth where people can have a free account or choose to support it with a paid account.