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Full History - 2016 - 06 - 14 - ID#4o2hxn

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Nice to see so many people here (self.Blind)

submitted by Roborowan

Beardgardens 25 points 7y ago

> nice to see

Heeeeey!

Roborowan [OP] 7 points 7y ago

Haha I didn't realise:D

MaybeSuicidalRaptor 4 points 7y ago

It's alright. We really don't mind. It's a part of our language, you see?

fastfinge 13 points 7y ago

It was a surprise signing into Reddit a couple hours ago and realizing there was actually mod work that needed doing! Lately, things seem to have been taking care of themselves. LOL.

On a more serious note, welcome, everyone! We have FAQs both for new blind and sighted readers in the sidebar. Anything else, feel free to ask!

MailBlade 6 points 7y ago

Nice sub! Interesting stories as well.

fastfinge 3 points 7y ago

Thanks!

johannL 6 points 7y ago

I have one question, what sort of "outreaches" are there between blind people and web developers? I have to admit I'm not giving anywhere near enough thought to accessibility, and I would love to see something devoted to just that. To keep me mindful of it, but also to learn things without having to seek them which I don't do enough. And not just from the technical documentation standpoint of "here is what you ought to do", but also actual people talking what works and doesn't work for them, etc. The actual pain points, if you will.

If anyone knows of any such communities on reddit or elsewhere, I'd love to hear of them :)

claudettemonet 3 points 7y ago

All tech question on this subreddit usually get a lot of attention. They tend to get upvoted and commented on. If you have any specific tech questions, just ask or trawl the subreddit for earlier discussions. We just had one about pdfs. Tech questions and accessibility questions are favorites here.

johannL 4 points 7y ago

Thanks, I'll stick around :)

fastfinge 2 points 7y ago

I don't think that a general forum for that really exists. Particular questions are, of course, welcome here. If you're working on IOS apps, applevis.com is the place to go. But other than that...I'm not really aware of any website that brings sighted devs and blind web users together in the way I think you mean.

Nighthawk321 9 points 7y ago

True that! At this rate, we're well on our way to 1000 subs!

MaybeSuicidalRaptor 4 points 7y ago

About time

johannL 2 points 7y ago

1002 now :)

claudettemonet 1 points 7y ago

What was it before? Like 2 months ago? Does anyone remember?

Nighthawk321 3 points 7y ago

I think just barely 800, something like that. I remember when I joined this sub it had like 300, I think.

GoneVision 5 points 7y ago

It is quite nice to see the uptick in traffic in this sub of late. I'll take an active chatty community over a ghost town message board any day. Dean Martineau mentioned r/binld in his Top Tech Tid Bits news letter, which is e-mailed to several thousand blind folks weekly, so I expect to see even more folks finding out this sub, and Reddit by extention soon.

Supra_Molecular 2 points 6y ago

Spy see.

Roborowan [OP] 2 points 6y ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

O5-8 2 points 6y ago

The top post on /r/blind is about seeing people,

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

claudettemonet 2 points 7y ago

Smiley

cheats47 1 points 7y ago

i bet it is.

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