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I'd just like to note that powering off sounds drastic, right? But that is what this product is doing to the visually impaired.

graderjs 5y ago
No that's cool, i thought you were coming with an antagonistic attitude in the first comment i just tried to play it cool and positive, i succeeded but you showed how you really felt above. This product is not doing that to them, anymore than the visual world, and every image on the internet that isn't captioned in every detail is doing that to them. So don't pretend that it's somehow our fault that o people are blind. That's important. There are important issues here but too often i see people misusing the cause of disabled people as a fake pretext to abuse others, while pretending they're being righteous, by criticizing and trying to control others, driven by their own need to put others down and feel better than them, thinking they're found a legitimate way to perpetrate their abuse. But they haven't. And that's why I'm really scared of talking with people about this because so many get caught up in that game. Especially worse when they say oh let's not care about the feelings of the developers. Because that's exactly what they intend to do... be abusive and then pretend they're righteous while disguising themselves in the cause of supporting disabled people. well they're actually hurting disabled people by proposing these ineffective solutions and poisoning the discussion about this rather than trying to constructively support effective solutions. so what I'm trying to do with this statement is bring it's important topic back from being this excuse for toxic behavior. That's not a respectful or a good use of this topic at all. But separating that out, disabled people have a valuable contribution to make and their voice should be heard and they should have access. So there are important problems that need solutions but the solution proposed by a lot of these people being abusive is oh let's get every vendor to alter everything they do to make it conform to this standard...and agree the case of buildings it's important to have a disabled ramp or something... but in the case of software that's not a scalable solution. And it doesn't respect the developers. I think the better solution is something like a browser extension and I think the ultimate solution is to leverage The power of AI to direct that ability to create the accessibility trees and so on from websites without needing annotations surely that should be possible and I think that is the ultimate solution and you're only doing disabled people a disservice by focusing on these you know ineffective solutions when there are technologically much better and much more scalable and effective ones and then you're only doing developers or disservice by having this abusive attitude. I'm not saying you were exactly doing that but I did detect that antagonism so it seems like you could get caught up in that too but I'm making a larger point about a dynamic that I see in these types of discussions. so the short way of saying it is it's a really important topic so the most effective way to deal with that is to respect the developers, respectfully engage The stakeholders and try to leverage the most effective technology not to misuse the topic itself as an excuse to be abusive because you feel you need to do that.

graderjs 5y ago

No that's cool, i thought you were coming with an antagonistic attitude in the first comment i just tried to play it cool and positive, i succeeded but you showed how you really felt above. This product is not doing that to them, anymore than the visual world, and every image on the internet that isn't captioned in every detail is doing that to them. So don't pretend that it's somehow our fault that o people are blind. That's important. There are important issues here but too often i see people misusing the cause of disabled people as a fake pretext to abuse others, while pretending they're being righteous, by criticizing and trying to control others, driven by their own need to put others down and feel better than them, thinking they're found a legitimate way to perpetrate their abuse. But they haven't. And that's why I'm really scared of talking with people about this because so many get caught up in that game. Especially worse when they say oh let's not care about the feelings of the developers. Because that's exactly what they intend to do... be abusive and then pretend they're righteous while disguising themselves in the cause of supporting disabled people. well they're actually hurting disabled people by proposing these ineffective solutions and poisoning the discussion about this rather than trying to constructively support effective solutions. so what I'm trying to do with this statement is bring it's important topic back from being this excuse for toxic behavior. That's not a respectful or a good use of this topic at all. But separating that out, disabled people have a valuable contribution to make and their voice should be heard and they should have access. So there are important problems that need solutions but the solution proposed by a lot of these people being abusive is oh let's get every vendor to alter everything they do to make it conform to this standard...and agree the case of buildings it's important to have a disabled ramp or something... but in the case of software that's not a scalable solution. And it doesn't respect the developers. I think the better solution is something like a browser extension and I think the ultimate solution is to leverage The power of AI to direct that ability to create the accessibility trees and so on from websites without needing annotations surely that should be possible and I think that is the ultimate solution and you're only doing disabled people a disservice by focusing on these you know ineffective solutions when there are technologically much better and much more scalable and effective ones and then you're only doing developers or disservice by having this abusive attitude. I'm not saying you were exactly doing that but I did detect that antagonism so it seems like you could get caught up in that too but I'm making a larger point about a dynamic that I see in these types of discussions. so the short way of saying it is it's a really important topic so the most effective way to deal with that is to respect the developers, respectfully engage The stakeholders and try to leverage the most effective technology not to misuse the topic itself as an excuse to be abusive because you feel you need to do that.