Professional blind person out to ruin videogames - Accessibility
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Eurodance / MC Liicia
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they/them 🇫🇮🇪🇪
#LGRW
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I don't know if anyone reads my tweets, but Cyberpunk 2077 not having an accessibility option for players with epilepsy is a perfect example of what I mean when I talk about players with disabilities being "left out" of trends because of careless design.
FINNISH TWITTER I NEED YOUR HELP. The city of Pori and Porin Linjat have decided that blind people and their assistants are no longer entitled to free bus rides, in a city that isn't at all blind-walking-friendly. This move will HURT PEOPLE. PLEASE SHARE.
@ContraPoints
Can a blind girl give her two cents?
This helps me. I can't see you. I need your voice to be the indicator and that is rarely a good metric. I understand this is probably hard for trans people but i don't want to misgender anyone because of the pitch of their voice.
#AnimalCrossingNewHorizions
isn't always the most accessible, & I was getting very frustrated about feeling like my blind self would never be able to play the way everyone else does. So I teraformed my (almost) entire island into a rainbow., leaving designated spaces for fossils
*HELP - FINNISH TWITTER PLEASE HELP!
@Porikaupunki
is AGAIN trying to take away bus rides for
#blind
people +their assistants- but this time they claim it's for "equality". WE CAN'T LET THEM DO THIS! Most blind people in
#Pori
are old pensioners! Please help us!
HEY FINNISH TWITTER. The City of Pori is still SILENT on why blind people and their assistants suddenly need to pay for the bus. Porin Linjat is on our side but the city is refusing to take any responsibility for their shameful action. Please keep applying pressure +retweeting!
Imagine not being able to play a game EVERYONE is talking about because there aren't accessibility options that make said game safe for you to play. All of the memes and cultural references? You're left out of them,
When I talk about accessibility, I don't just mean making considerations for blind people like me. Designing for players who are prime to seizures is a perfect example. Even Pokemon removed the episode of their cartoon because it caused a few viewers to experience seizures.
The average blind person in Pori is a PENSIONER who does not have money to pay up to €3.50 for themselves + 3.50 for their assistant BOTH WAYS. That's €14 just to go to the store! This will only lead to more ISOLATION OF OLDER PEOPLE.
@HerbWiseman
How about no? I'm disabled. "Living with disabilities" sounds like blindness is my wacky roommate. I'm sure you mean well but maybe don't talk for disabled people when we are very capable of speaking for ourselves.
@marysuewriter
Oh my g o d please do. I was on Tumble during that era and I'd see this "otherkin" arguing and I never knew what any of it meant! I just wanted to be queen and look at Adventure Time fanart.
Please, if you are a Finn, share this. If no one brings attention to this nothing will happen. There is no one calling Porin Kaupunki out on this right now. We need your help, please!
Moral of the story: If you feel like a game is too hard or that you can't keep up with your friends, just paint rainbows everywhere and do you.
#accessibility
#AnimalCrossing
Today is the 8th anniversary of my ex husband pulling a knife on me, and the anniversary of some very wonderful people saving me for nearly two years of daily mental and physical abuse.
Finland has a domestic violence problem, and foreign victims are often overlooked. Thread:
@ContraPoints
There was an interesting Reddit thread yesterday about men and makeup and "the glass elevator". Makeup for dads would probably sell like hot cakes & society would still shame women as being "vein" while praising the dads for being brave artists
@HerbWiseman
You spoke about us by saying "they feel.." Your profile says you're a social worker, and this is classic social work behaviour. I can't begin to tell you how many times Ive been in meetings with "experts" & SWs who weren't blind yet boldly asserted they knew what was best for us.
Being jump-scared by tarantulas is difficult.
When you're a disabled gamer, you are forced to always be thinking and always be trying to engineer ways to make the gaming process more balanced.
No blind person should have to pay €14 for a round-trip bus ride for them and their assistant. Elections are over, time to start holding officials accountable! Please share!
@ajsstormchaser
@JennyENicholson
Thinking the same. I lost my job in the summer and have had to count every dollar since. Seeing anyone sprnd so much on grape juice hurts me in a weird way.
They will vote on this on the 29th. If they vote in favor of it, it will ruin lives! Please tag any politicians who could help us. And SHAME on Meeika Lanne and anyone else who has the nerve to mention "equality." If the city is out of money, it's not the fault of blind people!
@TimoHarakka
@MarinSanna
@MariaOhisalo
and everyone else from the government, please help! This is not getting the attention it needs and no one is holding the city accountable. The blind people in Pori need your help!
Accessibility and disability community, did the oandemic and remote work made it harder or easier for you to get a game industry job, or did it have no impact?
My clifftops are still grass, and I have a few small squares of grass on lower levels, but that's all. The whole island is rainbow, so now I will always know where fossils and money trees are. No searching for tiny specs on the screen in the vastness of green trees on green grass
I wish things like
#gaconf
would happen every time I'm having a mental health spat. Being surrounded by other disabled and marginal people is a really great reminder that I am neither crazy nor "scary", nor alone in my fight. .
Just saw that Motionless In White is coming to here to Helsinki in the summer. I grew up in NEPA and remember seeing
@MIWband
@ChrisMotionless
and others back in the day at Cafe Metro and The Backstage, and all those tiny venues we had. Time flies. Super happy for those guys.
@JennyENicholson
Jenny I've been following you for only a few months, and you seem to get more random harassment over the most trivial stuff (like this!) than anyone I've ever followed. I don't know how you manage, but I really hope you are okay.
The one thing no one tells you about having a cleaner is that you will find yourself doing a lot of cleaning before they come, just so they don't think you're a monster.
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@ianhamilton_
last post Far too often the discussion of harassment in gaming communities focuses solely on what women experience. While women do face abuse, disabled women, women of colour, disabled women of colour, and other groups, as well as non-women from those groups🧵
@Keah_Maria
@BlondeHistorian
I just hate it when blind people are comic relief. Like, it's :HILARIOUS" that the main character had sex with / is dating /is interested in a blind person. It's exhausting to watch, as a blind person who feels they are deserving of a "normal" relationship.
@robenlupez
@ajsstormchaser
@JennyENicholson
That'd my point. $13,000 would literally change me and my child's lives. For many people this would be an earth-shattering amount of money that could solve a lot of their problems.
For her it's a disappointing bottle of juice.
There are headlines in the biggest newspapers whenever a foreigner is suspected of commiting a domestic or sexual assault, but when the abuser is a Finn and the victim foreign, there are no such headlines. There are no political parties coming in to make statements.
I became a citizen of Finland today, after eight years of hard work. Disabled immigrants don't have it easy, but we can do anything we set our mind to. Next goal: get invited to to Linnanjuhlat.
#suomi
I got covid last week. I'm 3x vaccinated so it was just a flu for me and now I'm left with only a runny nose. Go get vaccinated! It saves lives and saves wasted time in bed!
@thelindsayellis
I just don't understand why this is the hill on which she would like to die. The world is on fire & her only solution is to scream at trans kids. I knew I was NB at a very young age even before I had a word for my feeling. This would all be devastating for me if I were a HP fan.
@marysuewriter
Oh I bet. That was also the height of the TumblrInActiin stuff. Ngl I almost fell for what I presume were trolls, when I saw someone call themselves "trans-abled" and say they identify as blind. As a blind person this made me super angry but I think it was a far right troll.
All of these designs were found browsing Reddit. My vision is too poor to design anything more than the
#Estonian
flag, which I did do. My island is called
#Saare
, after all.
One of the reasons I'm not aa active on Twitter, especially with the
#accessibility
discussions, is the amount of death threats and awful messages I would get. A shocking amount of people would prefer if disabled people would just disappear.
Hey
#gamedev
, this is standard. I couldn't begin to count how many times I've had abuse & death threats for daring to talk about accessibility. They often think they're doing it on behalf of / in defence of devs. Devs need to take a strong vocal line on it with their communities.
Back in February, I tweeted about the amazing date I had and then never really mentioned it again. Here's an update:
This is the love of my life and it feels like we've always known eachother. I've never been more in love. I didn't know a person like this could even exist.
I would have initially wanted some super artistic and "interesting" island, like the people recreating Tokyo and movie scenes on Reddit. But even getting my houses in straight lines is difficult. Knowing in which direction my shovel points is difficult.
Someone just told me I had beautiful eyes and it's the first time someone has said anything positive about how I look in so long. I rarely ever get these kind of compliments and now I can't stop smiling.
The aspect I hate the most snout Finnish culture is the idea that if you are open about mental health, you are somehow just out for attention. Or that "really" mentally ill people don't tell anyone.
It hurts
I can finally announce my new EP "Estonia" will be out on 7 June!! Four covers translated into English! RT if you love cool blind girls and dance music 😘
@the1janitor
I used to think it was good when I was younger, but the more I learn about him and Wikileaks, the more I realise he's not this freedom-fighting knowledge wizard that a lot of people paint him out to be.
@PhilosophyTube
I pop in and out of
@Hbomberguy
's Discord and I really like it there, but I feel like it's the exception to the norm(v wholesome!<3). I don't understand why people who like the same stuff feel like they need to be toxic.
Hey blind & low-vision pals! I am working on an interactive romantic fiction Android app & I need help from the rest of you to know how the team is doing with
#Accessibility
. Text size custom+line spacing adjustable+nightmode. Unsure about screen readers working. Help me?
Forgot to tweet it buuuut I have started a new role within Next Games! Corporate Responsibility & Comms Specialist. This means I'll get to focus heavily on diversity&inclusion officially! Let's goooooo
Foreign victims of abuse in Finland don't have a support system. We rarely have a language that the police understand, if the police even believe us in the first place. We feel trapped. We blame ourselves.
Ensimmäinen DJ-keikka ulkomailla koettu. Kyllä se oli mahtavaa!
First DJ gig abroad went super well!
(I wasn't using Spotify)
#bergen
#konsoll2019
#djlicia
@ Bergen, Hordaland
I went on a few dates this weekend with one of the most amazing people I've ever met. I'm in love.
But this fear, sadness, and anger is too strong to enjoy it properly. I've never feared for humanity the way I do right now.
I wish Putin would stop.
My heart is with Ukraine.💙💛