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Well this certainly fits in with the standard for discourse around accessibility, which is mostly a bunch of people inventing a person in their head who will ha
by hbn 3y ago
Well this certainly fits in with the standard for discourse around accessibility, which is mostly a bunch of people inventing a person in their head who will have an issue with something someone else made and attacking the creator/developer/designer for not considering it. Meanwhile the first guy gets to pat himself on the back for being a good person.
"a11y might be confusing to people with autism" -- autistic people are extremely represented in tech. Of all the things autistic people struggle with, it's not technical jargon within their own industry.
- JohnFen 3y ago"a11y" is not accessible to me. I only saw the term for the first time a little while ago on HN, and I still haven't memorized what it means. Like the other absurd <letter><number><letter> abbreviations, I'll get it memorized eventually. But really, I wish we'd all just agree to stop with this kind of abbreviating. It's impossible to decipher what it means on its face. You have to memorize it.
- sshine 3y agoI a3e, s2p it!
- syndicatedjelly 3y agon1!
- sshine 3y agoThe article: > Some people with disabilities such as autism can struggle to understand non-literal language. Your paraphrase: > autistic people are extremely represented in tech. You made a switch-a-roo. The author mentioned one group, and you took a subset of that group who don’t have the problem and conclude it’s not a problem. I had never heard of a11y; I assumed it was some kind of gender identity.