Why not? Why is it the jone’s business if you choose to use a screen reader? Do what is best for you and if someone is offended or think it is funny that you do then you can tell them where to shove it.

The joy of assistive technology is that it helps everyone! Go ahead and use it if you'd like. I can't imagine someone telling you not to. You aren't "pretending" to be VI/Blind.

hey if you need it and it helps, go for it. My daughter's fully-sighted and dyslexic, she uses Alexa to read along with her Kindle books. I outperform her by listening at over 800 words per minute of course, but that's one of the benefits of blindness from birth for me.

I mean how the heck is a blind person going to know you are sighted and using a screen reader unless you tell them???


Blindness is a spectrum not an on/off switch anyways.


I'm typing this to you with night mode on inside my house and can see it as well as any fully sighted person could.


I take my phone outside on a sunny day and the glare can fry my eyes to crap so I need to turn TalkBack on to answer a text.


No one knows exactly how your eyes work. Use whatever you want to use.



If some random blind person gets mad at you for using screen readers? Just ignore them. You would not be "offending blind culture" or something like that, you'd just be encountering an asshole who happens to be blind.

Use whatever technology you need to make your life easier.

https://quicklygoingblind.blogspot.com/2022/03/how-blind-is-blind.html

In the first place, do what works for you. Who cares if some don't think it is acceptable. It will take a little getting use to, as you touch something and it speaks, double tap to activate it.

Just go for it.
It's on there for everyone to use. And if anyone complains about it just ignore them.
They are not worth your time.

You would probably get more complaints from sighted people who don’t know better. There’s people that tell us we’re faking it even though we’re not so it wouldn’t surprise me. The difference is we don’t care. If it helps you then don’t worry about what we or anyone else thinks.

Nobody cares-except maybe if you’re doing it in public and we all have to hear your raunchy texts to your buddies lol. Honestly the more users of accessibility software the better. Means the companies that develop it will put more time into bug fixes and making it easier to use.

Of course it is! I knew of a cited person who turned on voiceover on the way home on his iPhone, and used it to hear information coming in while driving. Now, that was cool.