As a visually impaired moderator of /r/Memes, I don't think sighted people have known what a meme is for the last five years. Have you seen that garbage now? :P I spent a lot of time in schools for the blind. We just had Helen Keller jokes back then.

Yeah I have to kinda agree here. This is probably the fourth major article about this, and while it is a valid subject, I wonder why we aren't talking about more important things, like how in most parts of the world, blind people are given next to no independents and many children are still put into isolated (at times abusive) institutions, and never given a chance to become a useful member of society?
Or how product and software design still doesn't have nearly enough inclusiveness baked in from the start, because the ADA and things like it almost never get properly enforced or take a long time to be investigated.
Or how less than 1% of the top million webpages comply with web accessibility guidelines.
Maybe being left out of memes is more important for the generation after mine, and I get that this makes for an easy story, it's an overdone concept and I think the big media outlets could do better for us.
Nothing against you as a person though.

White female. I do ask for a description of memes sinetimes, if the comments are interesting. But it worries me how many people get their information from them. I hear people irl say things that are just meme quotes.

Hey Rachel, don't worry about what everyone else is saying, they don't have to read it. I'd totally get involved (white, but woman!) although I'm in the UK and I'm not sure if that works for you.

Um? Why would the accessibility of memes even matter?? They’re not life changing and we can live without them. The inaccessibility sucks because nobody takes time to describe them. And why should they? That’s quite a ridiculous idea for an article in my opinion. Additionally, why would race matter? Where does color factor into the equation of accessibility?