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Accessibility is for more than just disabled people! I've recently had surgery on my shoulder, and have to have my left arm in a sling with no use for 6 weeks.

Accessibility is for more than just disabled people! I've recently had surgery on my shoulder, and have to have my left arm in a sling with no use for 6 weeks. I've made heavy use of my phone's one handed mode, and window's sticky keys When my partner goes to bed at night, I can keep watching Star Trek TNG with subtitles.

CM30 3y ago
Yeah, it's not all about permanent disabilities, it's also about temporary and situational ones (like say, having your hands full due to work, or being in an area which isn't well lit and needing better contrast).
robin_reala 3y ago
You’re a disabled person then. Sure, you’re temporarily disabled rather than permanently, but that doesn’t matter. One lens for looking at disability is that a disability is a system’s inability to cope with a particular user’s set of needs.
- barbaric_melons 3y ago
  Right. Disability seems to convey a negative still, much like there's something missing and it's a bad thing. There is a study that said a majority of disabled people with invisible disabilities would never identify publicly as disabled. So I'm willing to bet most of those people don't take to the idea that having a disability is more of a social issue then anything else.
- malfist 3y ago
  Yes, for my first example, I am temporarily disabled in regards to my arm, but my hearing is just fine. Accessibility for subtitles still helps me. I think the classic example of accessibility being better for everyone is the ramps at crosswalks. They help people with wheel chairs, they let blind people know they're walking into a crosswalk. But they also give people more traction, or help people with strollers move around.
SilasX 3y ago
Yep. And anything that makes a website easier to use with a screenreader, also makes it easier to write addons that enhance the UI for everyone.
pesfandiar 3y ago
This is so true. I once saw a diagram[1] in an accessibility training that drove this point very well for me. You don't need to have a disability to appreciate accessible software. [1] It looked like this: https://www.coursearc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Personas-Microsoft-Arbetsform-1.png https://www.coursearc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Persona...
bbbobbb 3y ago
> When my partner goes to bed at night, I can keep watching Star Trek TNG with subtitles. Don't take this as a snarky remark, but why are subtitles the solution to this over headphones?
- malfist 3y ago
  Lot harder to hook headphones up to a sonos surround sound system than it is to just mute it and read subtitles.

CM30 3y ago

Yeah, it's not all about permanent disabilities, it's also about temporary and situational ones (like say, having your hands full due to work, or being in an area which isn't well lit and needing better contrast).

robin_reala 3y ago

You’re a disabled person then. Sure, you’re temporarily disabled rather than permanently, but that doesn’t matter. One lens for looking at disability is that a disability is a system’s inability to cope with a particular user’s set of needs.

barbaric_melons 3y ago
Right. Disability seems to convey a negative still, much like there's something missing and it's a bad thing. There is a study that said a majority of disabled people with invisible disabilities would never identify publicly as disabled. So I'm willing to bet most of those people don't take to the idea that having a disability is more of a social issue then anything else.
malfist 3y ago
Yes, for my first example, I am temporarily disabled in regards to my arm, but my hearing is just fine. Accessibility for subtitles still helps me. I think the classic example of accessibility being better for everyone is the ramps at crosswalks. They help people with wheel chairs, they let blind people know they're walking into a crosswalk. But they also give people more traction, or help people with strollers move around.

SilasX 3y ago

Yep. And anything that makes a website easier to use with a screenreader, also makes it easier to write addons that enhance the UI for everyone.

pesfandiar 3y ago

This is so true. I once saw a diagram[1] in an accessibility training that drove this point very well for me. You don't need to have a disability to appreciate accessible software. [1] It looked like this: https://www.coursearc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Personas-Microsoft-Arbetsform-1.png https://www.coursearc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Persona...

bbbobbb 3y ago

> When my partner goes to bed at night, I can keep watching Star Trek TNG with subtitles. Don't take this as a snarky remark, but why are subtitles the solution to this over headphones?

malfist 3y ago
Lot harder to hook headphones up to a sonos surround sound system than it is to just mute it and read subtitles.