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Disability Culture Project Help (self.Blind)
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Winnmark 1 points 2y ago
Looks like you got competition, there's another group of college students asking for the same thing...
intellectualnerd85 1 points 2y ago
Might want to contact ricks life as I see it. He has a shooting with disability’s chat with unique people
CloudyBeep 1 points 2y ago
You'll get way more interest from r/deaf.
lizwb 5 points 2y ago
Which is very telling
juswundern 1 points 2y ago
How so? Genuine question. Telling of what?
lizwb 3 points 2y ago
Exactly. Blind communities are rare because it’s so damn difficult to navigate the web w/o vision. There are less-than-adequate tools to consume web content... and close to ZERO tools to CREATE web content.
How can blind people embrace a medium which so effectively shuts them out? At BEST, the Internet tells blind people: “well, we have this crappy (formerly crazy expensive) thing you can use laboriously to get online. It’ll take you five time as long —or longer—to do what most people do in seconds... but you can use it to experience in a shitty way what the rest of us enjoy.”
Blind user: “WTF?”
Everyone else online, not even wiling to try closing their eyes for 60 seconds to empathize: “what’s wrong? You don’t want to sit on the outside, as a non-participant, just admiring what we give you as an afterthought? How ungrateful!”
— my mother is blind.
How can blind people embrace a medium which so effectively shuts them out? At BEST, the Internet tells blind people: “well, we have this crappy (formerly crazy expensive) thing you can use laboriously to get online. It’ll take you five time as long —or longer—to do what most people do in seconds... but you can use it to experience in a shitty way what the rest of us enjoy.”
Blind user: “WTF?”
Everyone else online, not even wiling to try closing their eyes for 60 seconds to empathize: “what’s wrong? You don’t want to sit on the outside, as a non-participant, just admiring what we give you as an afterthought? How ungrateful!”
— my mother is blind.
juswundern 2 points 2y ago
Oh gotcha. I see where you are coming from. Thank you for the explanation.
[deleted] [OP] 1 points 2y ago
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