Ashlee
@AshleeMBoyer
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deaf. disabled. neurodivergent. accessibility, disability, & software engineering consultant. my employer loves my views.
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"In loving memory of Atinuke Abayomi Paul (Tinu), beloved daughter, granddaughter, aunt, cousin, friend, writer and activist. Taken from us far too soon on September 26, 2024."
#ForTinu
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Where are all the Americans that ask “what if an ambulance needs to get through” when protesters block a street or highway?
People *intentionally* blocking help so it can’t get through doesn’t actually bother you? Oh ok.
Extremist Israeli settlers block a road leading to the Karm Abu Salem crossing to prevent humanitarian aid trucks from entering the Gaza Strip.
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My dude I am literally deaf 🤣
@AshleeMBoyer
@Contenticles
Masks are discriminatory towards hearing impaired people. Glad YOU learned that today
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Biden admin’s abandoned us.
Get some high quality masks, do your shopping online, order items for quick pick up, order food carry out, try to distance in public, etc.
Protect yourself and the people around you! We’re all vulnerable to COVID.
U.S. reports more than 2,000 new COVID deaths for the 4th week in a row
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I don’t know if y’all remember. But Zoom was sued for putting live transcription behind a paywall.
Putting accessibility functionality behind a paywall is bad. Don’t do it. You’ll probably get sued.
Disabled people shouldn’t have to pay for accessibility. It’s a human right.
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I am BEGGING
@Zoom
to make captions accessible. I am TIRED of asking meeting hosts to enable captions. This has gone on for far too long and I am completely out of patience. I shouldn't have to beg for access. 🤬
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Do you also ask people why they use a cane? Wheelchair? Glasses? Crutches? Hearing aids? Cochlear implants? Disabled parking placard? Dentures? Rollator? Walker? Prosthetic arm or leg? Wrist or ankle braces? Compression socks? Any other accessibility aid? Don’t.
I went on vacation for a few days and twice I saw two people at separate times walk into the elevator with a mask on. I asked them if they were sick.
They looked a little surprised and both people at separate times said the same thing, that they didn’t want to get sick.
I was
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This is terrible and sets precedent that will embolden anti-maskers to harass and abuse disabled people in public.
As much as they love to say "OF COURSE NOT ACTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE" they never know just by looking at us if we're disabled.
This is bad, bad, bad.
"lf a person refused to (unmask), that right there should cause you some sense of alarm."
NYC Mayor Eric Adams continues to encourage businesses to request customers to unmask. This is ableist, puts people's health at risk, and is NOT required by law.
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50% of people killed by law enforcement are disabled. More than half of Black disabled people have been arrested by 28, 2x the risk in comparison to white disabled people.
We KNOW cops have racial and ableist biases. We should not be giving them more power against these groups.
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As a Disabled software engineer directly affected by this blatantly inaccessible voice tweet feature, it is incredibly soul crushing to see a massive company with endless resources release shit like this and say "We'll figure it out later."
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How can I trust either of you to protect abortion rights when they’ve already been taken in my state and all you did was come wave your finger at legislators?
To protect reproductive rights, the American people need to reelect
@JoeBiden
as president of the United States.
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Holy shit this is incredible
New Scientist: "Chronic fatigue syndrome could be quickly diagnosed via a blood test"
“It is vital to get biomarkers for ME, so Ponting’s major study is extremely important,” says Douglas Kell at the University of Liverpool in the UK
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Hey
@Zoom
, why does a meeting host have to be the one to enable captions in meetings? This causes so many uncomfortable problems for people that rely on captions. Attendees shouldn’t have to ask permission for accessibility.
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Sucks to be disabled in my 20s I guess.
“But they’re not talking about disabled people!!!”
They never are. Trust me, we notice it.
Unpopular opinion:
Telling young people to work-life balance is actively harmful. Your 20’s are the best time to grind. You have lots of energy and few responsibilities.
a good 20’s grind creates the space to chill in your 30’s and beyond
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Write readable code and make sure folks can safely give feedback on readability, and everyone will have a better time 💖
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Big news! 🎉
Tomorrow is my first day as a fullstack engineer. I'll be learning Ruby and Rails for the backend and will keep working in React for the frontend!
But the BEST part is that it's a small startup of only women. I'm the 5th one and the 2nd engineer. 👩💻💅💃
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The CDC hasn’t tweeted the word “mask” or “masks” since December of 2022?? This is so ridiculous it feels so fake
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Hey
@zoom_us
do y’all plan on making it possible to have live captions always enabled? I constantly have to remind people to enable them so I can turn them on for myself and it gets more and more uncomfortable every time. This would be a big accessibility improvement.
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“Just buy ingredients”
You do know disabled people get judged for that shit too right? We buy pre-cut fruits or veggies and get told we’re the reason the planet is dying
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The reason disabled people speak up on this stuff to say “that doesn’t work for me” is because treatment that *does* work for us is stigmatized by blanket advice like: Just try yoga! Just drink more water! This advice is constantly yelled at us, almost always unsolicited too.
Study: Physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications in managing
#depression
, anxiety, and distress. All forms of
#exercise
are effective, including yoga, Pilates, aerobic, and resistance training. Move more!
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You're not working to dismantle an ableist system. You're strengthening it. You're empowering people who share that "we can do it later" mentality. You're undoing all the work and energy I've put into educating other software engineers on this topic.
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Disabled people have been treated like literal garbage to be thrown away by the US government, and you expect every bit of our advocacy to be polite? You can take your hurt feelings and fuck off too 🖕🏻
Just to follow up: the brand of person I was referring to is someone who tells people to fuck off if they choose to work from home while sick. I don’t find that persuasive, I find it unhinged.
Long Covid is real, tragic, and deserves more attention (I had a post-Covid condition
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We do what with our hands? 🤔
@Sharedfield
the beauty of living in society is random contact. i feel sad for you that you don't engage more. also imagine a world where that deaf person is further isolated. it's not about flapping their hands to ask to be included.
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It’s actually funny how much criticism he constantly puts out and how little he’s able to receive 😂
This sounds just like the men in my classes that tried to make me feel like garbage because I didn’t learn how to code before going to college 😂
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My favorite insult ever was when a tech bro tried to tell me my React accessibility code was simple. That's the point, thanks for noticing! 🥰
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So, thanks for not only shitting on the Disabled people who can't use this feature, but also thanks for shitting on the people doing accessibility education.
YOU'RE DOING GREAT.
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If frontend development is sooo easy, tech bros wouldn’t complain about things like accessibility. They probably don’t even consider it part of frontend development because they’re not even thinking about it. It’s just completely absent from their thought process.
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Hey,
@Zoom
! 👋🏻
Been a while since I asked, but I’m wondering when y’all will make it possible for meeting attendees to use captions without having to ask a host to turn them on EVERY meeting?
Thanks a bunch,
A tired deaf person
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If you’re currently struggling to do the things you love because of physical and/or mental health issues, I want you to know you’re not alone. I’m right there with you and sometimes it feels like everyone else is passing you by. But we all have different paces and it’s okay. 💖
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Did some quick accessibility tests on . I am disappointed, but not surprised.
The "toolbar for a wysiwyg editor" has buttons with no Accessible Name.
Inaccessible UI isn't "production-grade code". Unless "the bar you set for yourself" is low.
produces the kind of production-grade code that we'd want to ship in our own
@vercel
products.
That was the bar we set for ourselves.
At the moment it can output HTML with
@tailwindcss
and React w/
@shadcn
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I applied for an income driven repayment plan because I can’t afford a $460/mo payment, so Aidvantage approved my application and they raised the payment to $563/mo.
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Bad managers also ruin people if we’re honest
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Hi, I am “someone”
And yes I believe the facts in the link I gave you are true because I’ve verified all the ones I could against public and readily available information.
With all due respect, why do you act like such a self righteous bitch baby?
Someone just sent me a link with "the facts". Thank you; but I have a question. Do you believe that links to things on the internet are always true, impartial, in context, and complete? Or do you agree with me that skepticism is generally warranted?
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✨ 5 things every person in tech should know in 2021: a thread ✨
I’m talking to ALL of y’all. Devs, executives, tech support folks, designers, QA testers, recruiters, VPs, researchers, marketing specialists, sales specialists, everyone.
You need to know these things. 👇
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Make sure you're not hiring new-to-tech devs that are incredibly racist!
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And when I say "soul crushing" I mean it exactly like that. My body is having a physical reaction to this because it's incredibly upsetting.
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It took me over half a decade to start making 6 figures in tech. I was in school for several years and had to work several jobs to get there. Please don’t be discouraged if you don’t achieve people’s arbitrary "you can do it in so little time!" claims. 💖
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Making people pay for accessibility will get you sued. Just ask Zoom.
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Non disabled people hear “special needs” as “optional needs” change my mind
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I'm in a meeting but I can't understand what's going on unless the meeting host has paid an absurd fee *and* turned on live transcription in their browser settings *and* enabled them for the meeting
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@Contenticles
Masks are mobility aids just like wheelchairs are. Glad you learned that fun fact today. 🥰
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I am a Disabled web developer. Code that produces inaccessible web content pisses me off. I am either directly affected or someone in my community is directly affected.
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I have a challenge for the thousands of people that liked this.
Set your phone’s text size to the largest and use all your apps like that for one week.
You’ll find many of them don’t work. Even bank and food apps get accessibility wrong.
Hot take: There’s a finite amount of time for ‘pensioners’ to generate sympathy from this ‘discrimination’. Mobile phones were introduced 51 years ago, smart phones were introduced 32 years ago. At some point it becomes a dogmatic self-sabotaging lifestyle choice.
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@bibicosplays
And like why are they so convinced we're making it all up? I can simply state the fact, "I'm in pain every single day," and all their assumptions that follow are terrible. Why are we not seen as credible narrators of our own lives?
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Not only are links now inaccessible to screen reader and keyboard users, they’re also inaccessible to speech recognition users.
The aria-label can be long and complicated, and isn’t visible. This means speech rec. users can’t know what to say to have their device open a link.
The X/Twitter update to remove headlines from link previews has also completely broken their accessibility.
The link/image can't be tabbed to with the keyboard, and it's been totally hidden from screen readers.
Here's how to make your links accessible until it's fixed (thread)
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"Juniors shouldn’t touch production" is a terrible take for a million reasons.
Developers will grow and become more confident the more they break things IF they’re in a supportive environment that teaches them how to learn from mistakes and mishaps.
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I’m sorry but if you can’t google some terminology, perhaps it’s time to consider that a software engineering position isn’t right for you
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Y’all I’m very aware that disabled people are questioned about every intimate details of their lives. It was a rhetorical question, hence the “don’t”.
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PSA: remote work has made working accessible to many disabled people. Pass it on
Question and don’t fight me cause I know ya like to tussle on here but why are ya lazy asses pissed off about remote working coming to an end?
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I just married my best friend on our 10 year anniversary. 🥰
The Airbnb we stayed in last year (where he proposed) happened to have a wood burning stove with our name on it.
So we stayed there again for our honeymoon. 💗
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I am so disappointed and heartbroken. I was laid off from HashiCorp today.
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I need y'all to see the connections to disability justice here. Thousands of Palestinians have been disabled by Israel's attacks on Gaza.
How are they supposed to travel out of active areas in a few hours? What part of Gaza isn't actively being attacked? How long will that last?
These pauses will help get civilians to safer areas away from active fighting.
They are a step in the right direction.
You have my word: I will continue to advocate for civilian safety and focus on increasing aid to alleviate the suffering of the people of Gaza.
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@Imani_Barbarin
Currently? Paper plates. My energy is so low lately and not having dirty dishes piling up helps a lot!
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I wish people would stop putting SEO and accessibility on the same level. They are not on the same level. Accessibility is about other people. SEO is about you. Accessibility is more important than SEO and deserves more effort.
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Claiming that someone is attention-seeking when they say they have a mental/physical condition is ableist. Every time. It’s a microaggression. Stop it.
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What's happening in Palestine is a disability issue.
It's a mass disabling event, and they do not have what they need to care for disabled people.
There is no disability justice without a
#FreePalestine
.
trying to wrap my mind around the fact that no medical supplies have entered the Gaza strip since May 6.
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Working (suffering) through a disability and keeping it secret is not inspiring. It’s a huge systemic issue & we should be talking about how to fix it, not normalizing Disabled people working themselves to literal death. Listen to Disabled ppl rn. Especially Black Disabled ppl.
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There’s no “feeling” left behind. Disabled people have been abandoned for dead, and that’s a factual statement.
This isn’t just about policy. It’s life or death. And you’re all abandoning us for dead too because you won’t listen.
This is scary. People looking to throw democracy away because they are upset about a policy.
I appreciate being upset & feeling left behind. I don’t understand how they thing withholding a vote will make things better. The message it sends is they are ok with a dictatorship.
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@GISELLE_HGC
Nothing. Because I’m capable of understanding that weight isn’t just about food and most importantly because I mind my own business.
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My non-tech (but still nerdy) partner wants to learn how to make a website with HTML and CSS?!?! And wants me to teach him?!?! 😍
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I made an a11y app and I'm really excited to see where it goes from here. Use it for testing out your text and background colors!
#DEVCommunity
#a11y
#textua11y
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Y’all, please stop holding accessibility conversations on Clubhouse. It is not an accessible platform. As someone in accessibility who can’t consume content on that platform, seeing this from other accessibility folks is disheartening and hurts.
I’ve opened this space on Clubhouse primarily for networking, especially for those new to or curious about starting your digital
#accessibility
journey.
#ux
#webdev
#design
#tech
#productmanager
#appdev
#iosdev
#androiddev
#edtech
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If any of the like, repost, etc. buttons are completely replaced with swipe gestures and no click-like function, they will be totally unusable by mobile screen reader users.
iOS 17 VoiceOver for example has no basic swipe-equivalent gesture:
UPDATE: X's current plan is to remove the engagement buttons (like, repost, etc.) from the main timeline and REPLACE them with gestures.
e.g. Double tap to like, swipe to reply.
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Nothing’s official but they’re offering me the position and I verbally accepted yesterday evening! I can finally start putting all my finances back together and eating normally again. 😭
Should have an answer tomorrow about my final interview with a company. Please hire me. You’re cool. 😭
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I’ve always been **strongly** judged for not liking pair programming unless the intent is teaching or unblocking.
I don’t like it because it’s incompatible with how my brain works. I can’t think. My mind is most occupied with masking & trying to hear what’s said.
pair programming is very high leverage — you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves
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No strong shade to OP. I’m just really tired of blanket statements about how you “should” be living life or working. It never includes marginalized people. Ever
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The time has come for me to speak my truth on the trauma I endured over the past several months.
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Indianapolis mayor’s salary might increase from $95,000 to $125,000.
Indiana governor’s salary is estimated to increase more than $80,000 next year.
And Indiana’s minimum wage is still $7.25, unchanged since 2009.
If they made minimum wage, they’d be more motivated to fix it.
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*DOOR* Dash. Door. Just take the order to the door. And then we can also organize together for fair pay. Taking out your anger towards your employer on the end consumer doesn’t help anyone.
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Don’t pretend like you care about accessibility. NONE of these videos are even captioned. Guess GPT-4o can’t do that.
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My company gives Juneteenth off. Since it’s tomorrow, we get today. How many other companies are doing this?
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It’s become apparent to me that people think Twitter Spaces are really accessible JUST because they have auto captions. This is not the case.
- Auto captions are not very accurate
- The captions are hard to read/see
- It’s all laggy
- You can’t really tell who’s speaking
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Seriously, why are some people SO proud of being bad at CSS? I can tell you for a fact that getting good at CSS feels so much better.
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@CityofBerkeley
@PGE4Me
I hate that you assume all disabled folks in need of power have the resources to deal with something like this. You’re abandoning them. Stop it. Do the right thing.
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A lot of people talking about why remote work does or doesn’t work for them, and I have to add that it’s been great for my migraines and chronic pain. I can take breaks almost whenever I need to. I don’t have to deal with how overstimulating commuting and socializing is. 💖
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I was laid off 3 months ago. Today, I'm announcing my new consulting business. ✨
Hire me for short/med term contracts:
- frontend web development
- web accessibility
- developer productivity
- ERG leadership strategy
... and more!
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Hey in case you needed a reminder, Clubhouse is inaccessible and you shouldn’t use it
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Tech bros act like a woman didn’t coin the term “software engineering”
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Too many disabled white people weaponize their identity to get away with racism, or they have it weaponized for them by other white people.
Being disabled isn’t an excuse for being racist. To claim otherwise is infantilizing and only works to uphold a racist society.
UPDATE: Remember the “Karen Goes Crazy” video 2 yrs ago where a woman lunged at a Nigerian woman at a mall and then began to break down? Remember how the internet made fun of this woman and called her a "Karen" endlessly?
It turns out that Abigail Elphick is disabled. She
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If it bothers you when American protestors do it in a way that DOESN’T cause harm, but it doesn’t bother you when people in Israel do it with the explicit intention of starving and killing the people of Gaza, you’re a hypocrite and on the wrong side of history.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but self-diagnosis is valid when it’s all you have. It doesn’t mean you’re attention-seeking. Yes a diagnosis would be great but a lot can stand in the way of that: money, bias (gender, race, weight, etc.), transportation, insurance, and more.
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Great news! I landed a fantastic opportunity and will be starting a new job in a few weeks. Can’t wait to tell y’all who it’s with! 🤩🥳👏🏻
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This is a *prime* example of why non disabled people aren’t capable of gauging whether or not they bullied disabled people.
Non disabled people can’t even identify us. In this discourse, they’re referring to visually apparent disabilities. Not those of us with non apparent ones.
Disabled ppl are often separated from abled ppl. Ur seats are in specified areas, ur equipment for whatever the task, is in a specified area, etc, or almost any room. U were often in diff classrooms as well. U are calling us bullies for not lending friendship where we often dont-
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I have seen an alarming number of people this week say things along the lines of "get therapy". We can’t toss that phrase around so easily when mental health care is so stigmatized and expensive.
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Idk why this person followed me today but let’s use their post as a learning moment.
1. It’s illegal to charge for accessibility. Just ask Zoom.
2. Accessibility isn’t expensive unless you treat it as an afterthought.
3. Disabled people aren’t a small percentage of users.
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Got my first paycheck on my birthday and treated myself to a trip to Target yesterday. Going to Starbucks soon to pick up my free drink and also a cake pop. After how most of 2020 has gone, today feels really good. I’m thankful for all of you and your support!! 💖✨🎉💜🥰
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This is why
#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
posts from companies like
@Zoom
are bullshit.
The lack of accessible captions wears on my mental health.
The lack of action or communication on the shitty captioning system wears on my mental health.
There is zero evidence
@Zoom
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This sounds just like the men in my classes that tried to make me feel like garbage because I didn’t learn how to code before going to college 😂
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As a disabled & neurodivergent person that also focuses on web accessibility, I shouldn't have to spend so much time advocating for my own accessibility at work.
@Zoom
makes my job so much harder and reduces the amount of energy I have to do work on accessibility for others.
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