#blind and vision impairment

[frankiensteinsmonster]

People in this demographic, please let me know how to tag to get a hold of you as someone who doesn't need Image Descriptions!!

#visually impaired #low vision #image descriptions #ID #cpunk #cripple punk #blind #alt text

[the-delta-quadrant]

normalise disabled eyes. normalise crossed eyes, normalise lazy eyes, normalise nystagmus, normalise how disabled eyes look and move. stop being shitty to vision impaired people and others with eye conditions about our fucking eyes. our eyes tell you fuck all about how "smart" we are (stop being intellectually ableist anyway), they don't tell you if we're listening, they just tell you that we have an eye condition.

#disabled #disability #low vision #eye conditions #eye condition #eye diseases #vision impaired #blind #blindness #partially sighted #partially blind #visually impaired

[actingwithportals]

ALT TEXT ISSUE

So just a heads-up for folks who defer to using ALT text on their posts instead of plaintext IDs, if the ALT text is long enough clicking on the ALT button to visually read the text creates a problem, because as soon as you move your cursor away from the ALT button (like if you use a screen magnifier and are trying to scroll down the page to read the rest of the ALT text) the text WILL DISAPPEAR. It is not possible to continue reading the whole thing visually, which is a problem for blind/low vision users that rely on screen magnifiers or enlarged text.

I know that most people prefer ALT text because people hate having long IDs on their posts, and that generally ALT text is better for people who use screen readers, but it is continuously proving to be a problem for blind/low vision users that rely on screen magnifiers over screen readers. So please PLEASE consider including plaintext IDs so that we can read them too, especially if your IDs are long and likely to get cut off by the limitations of the screen size.

#blind #legally blind #low vision #visually impaired #actuallyblind #alt text #image descriptions #screen readers #screen magnifiers #accessibility

[front-ill]

Okay to reblog/like even if you're on my DNI. I'm putting this on my disability blog because it relates to accessibility.

Let's talk about inaccessibility in the MOGAI/LIOM/Queer/LGBTQIA+ community online. Especially if you're a coiner, flag maker, or whatever.

Do you know how privileged it is to be able to not make any, and I mean ANY, of your posts accessible because you are arrogant about people being forced out of the community because of you? Specifically people who are visually impaired in any way which are forced out of the community because you're lack of willingness to be accessible?

There are many, MANY resources available to you to make your posts accessible. You absolutely can make your posts accessible. YOU, yes YOU, can absolutely fucking make YOUR POSTS accessible. Just fucking ask. Reach out.

You can draft your posts, you can look further into communities to make your post accessible before posting, you can save spoons to make your post accessible or wait until you have spoons to make them accessible, and you can look for others to create descriptions/plain text FOR YOUR POSTS.

At this point, there is no excuse to have none of your posts be accessible. "I don't have spoons," but making flags and counting terms also requires spoons. You aren't sneaky with not wanting to be accessible and putting in the work to do so. Oh, and we shouldn't have to be fucking BEGGING and ASKING for accessibility. BEING ACCESSIBLE SHOULD BE STANDARD.

[PT: Being accessible should be standard. End]

So you know what? Start calling people out on this ableist, arrogant behavior. And you know what else? It is ableist if you do not make no attempt to be accessible. Simply because, you have no reason to not be. If your blog shows absolutely NO ATTEMPT at being accessible, YOU need to change. Doesn't matter if it, 'ruins your aesthetic,' neither.

Start being accessible, or continue to have no care whatsoever for people who require that accessibility on your posts. Show no care and sympathy for people who are forced out of the community because of you.

Tags, asked to be removed

@chronicallycouchbound @epikulupu @xdle-coxns @galaxy-starshine @potato-head-kids @blindcultureis

#image description #accessibility #accessibilities #vi #visually impaired #blind #low vision #legally blind #blindness #awareness #long post #serious #other #disability #disabled #sensory #sensory disability

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #accessibility #screen readers #blindness #visually impaired #low vision #polls about the internet

[zebulontheplanet]

I want people to understand this, not every person who is blind or can’t read uses a screen reader. Some people don’t use them. Some people rely on other people to read for them, some people rely on magnifying apps. Some people just avoid the internet. There are multiple reasons for this, some people don’t like screen readers. Some people don’t find them helpful. There are so many reasons someone doesn’t use a screen reader.

I know someone with alexia who doesn’t use a screen reader because she doesn’t like them. She depends on other people, and she’s happy with that. That’s great!

#zebrambles #screen readers #alexia #blind #vision impairment #reading disability

[thecorvidforest]

it’s really disheartening that the only tumblr blogs i follow that consistently add alt text/image descriptions to photos on posts and reblogs are ones run by visually impaired folks. even most of the leftist blogs & non-VI disability-centered blogs i follow aren’t consistently adding adequate IDs to photos, or even tagging them as undescribed so they can be filtered out.

like, how am i meant to believe your leftism/advocacy includes all disabled people when you run a leftism or disability-focused blog that isn’t even accessible? do you really care about all disabled folks, or just the convenient ones?

obligatory disclaimer that this doesn’t apply to people who literally aren’t capable of doing it. but let’s be honest, that’s not most of you.

#both directed and general #visual impairment #visually impaired #blind #ableism #vision loss #visual disability

[wheelie-sick]

*sensory disability is a category of disability for disabilities that affect senses. traditionally this means sensory loss alone.

feel free to explain your reasoning

#sensory disability #sensory disabled #actuallydeaf #actually deaf #blind #low vision #visually impaired #actually auditory processing disorder #actually visual processing disorder

[cosmiccripple]

went to the pharmacy to get cetirizine and the box has braille on it, nicely printed braille, but then they've covered some of the braille with a price sticker... making the braille unusable.... it's a fucking pharmacy they should know better

#ableist bullshit #fuck ableists #ableism #actually disabled #disability #invisible disability #crip punk #cpunk #cripplepunk #cripple punk #c punk #vision loss #vision impaired #braille #blind #blindness

[alleycatchitchat]

The new live-action ATLA looks amazing, incredible, already such an improvement over the movie. But I really hope they don't neglect the lighthearted atmosphere and comedic elements of the original show. I'm okay with a grittier, slightly darker tone because that's just natural for a live action adaptation, but LET ZUKO BE A DUMBASS and LET TOPH BE PETTY and LET AANG BE FUN-LOVING and LET SOKKA BE THE COMEDIC RELIEF

Like it's okay to aim for a different mood, just not to the point where everyone's grim and depressed and ooc

#they're kids! let them be kids! #oh yeah and momo looks horrifying #but that's ok so long as the writing is good #can't believe we live in an age with a real canon live-action zuko ponytail. truly we are blessed #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender live action #live action atla #atla live action #netflix atla #my zutara hopes for this series are sky-high #and lets face it. kataang looks unrealistic this time around #cant believe percy jackson and atla live action adaptions are both getting second chances that look good so far #my CHILDHOOD #really really frustrated about the whitewashing and zuko's scar. but that's a whole 'nother post #and if toph is not casted with a legally blind or AT LEAST vision-impaired actress then I will be flipping tables

[the-delta-quadrant]

here are some things that would help me as a blind person regarding online accessibility (mobile for me):

- all apps should display all text sizes (iphone goes up to 310%)

- all apps should display bold text if it's turned on in the system settings

- there should be a standard for text size; if my text size is 100% across all apps, then an instagram post, a toot, a text message etc. should all be the same size, no more "instagram and tumblr are always slightly smaller for some reason" bs

- an app's formatting (such as buttons, alerts etc) needs to be compatible with large text! large text doesn't help me if all the buttons are suddenly overlapping or i can't get out of an alert window because they forgot to program the ability to scroll. no more overlapping shit, no more missing shit, no more "i can't get out of this window without closing the app and changing my text size"

- usernames, channel names, all word and sentences should be fully visible even with large text! i don't know what channel "# ge..." is on discord. find a way to make it visible, either make it multiple lines, give me the ability to side scroll or make it move like a spotify song title

- make sure things that shouldn't be affected by large text aren't! if i need to scan a barcode and my large text settings make it unrecognisable to the machine, that's unhelpful

- all apps should have a light mode and a dark mode! certain conditions make it easier to see light mode, others make it easier to see light mode

- dark mode should be as high-contrast as light mode, i.e. white on black, not white on dark grey

- probably have other options beyond regular dark and light mode

- on apps that let you customise your profile a lot visually, give the option to view it in your phones' settings, i.e. if someone's got a dark red on black serif-font tumblr, i wanna be able to make it into a white on black plain font tumblr

- alt text should be accessible without a screenreader

- there should probably be a dedicated field for video descriptions too

- apps that give hashtags a different colour than the rest of the text should let you choose the colour

- all apps should let you view someone's profile picture in full size

- this one is specific to instagram: let us fucking zoom in normally! why do i have to do finger gymnastics just to stay zoomed in and read text on a picture? the zoom should work the same way it does in my photo library and literally everywhere else

most of these shouldn't be that hard and they would make my life a hell of a lot easier. i'm tired of running into issues because i'm too blind to read regular size text.

i WISH it was as simple as "describe your images" and "no fancy fonts", which is something people can easily choose to do to make things a little more accessible, and if they don't, i can unfollow and surround myself with people who post accessible stuff.

but all of the things i listed are things done my developers and not regular users, it's stuff i can't just ignore by surrounding myself with people who care about blind accessibility if the people who create the spaces don't care about blind accessibility.

#and that's not even getting into android's so called large text #disabled #disability #blind #low vision #visually impaired #sight impaired

[aloeverawrites]

Disclaimer: I made this post a while ago, off the top of my head, in response to an animal rights group that was rightly accused of being ableist. I wanted to try and show that you could care about guide dogs without being dismissive of people who’s are visually impaired but I’m not sure if I did that well. It’s only meant to start a conversation that can be lead by someone more qualified. Instead of reblogging I’d recommend looking for other perspectives on it, (and then sending me the links because I’d like to know more.)

So I have ideas about guide dogs, but I'm sighted so it's not really my place to discuss them.

Like I do think there's a problem with training one organism to serve another for their whole life. I think that if they also teach the dogs how to talk using those soundboards then this will be much better because at least they've agreed to it. Also they might be able to communicate with their carers more effectively and help them more.

And on the other hand, we've put dogs in a situation where being kept in the house all day and then being taken for maybe 1-2 walks a day is their best case scenario. So maybe it's actually better to teach a dog how to function in human society and give them an option to participate in it. I know that working can help human mental health, maybe it's the same for dogs.

And there's the important point that guide dogs help blind people and people with low-vision. It helps them have their needs and rights respected in a world that doesn't look for them they way it should.

Idk, maybe I'm just saying that we should see guide dogs as workers and not tools. And we see animals as objects/tools in general so while we should be changing that thinking maybe we should be focusing on animals that aren't necessary unlike guide dogs.

So yeah I'm not really making a definite statement on this, more trying to start a conversation. Also I'm hoping that my fellow vegans can look at this and figure out how to balance animal rights with human rights because I think that sometimes we ignore the human rights aspect.

So what do you guys think? How do we make things better for guide dogs and their disabled guardians? I'd especially like to hear from people who are vision impaired because they're the most important voices in this.

#human rights #animal rights #vegan for the animals #disability #intersectionality #guide dogs #blind #vision impaired

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

I follow tons of disability/chronic illness/mental health tags and I keep seeing memes or infographics without alt text or image IDs. This is not okay for content of any subject matter, but its beyond ridiculous for these spaces in particular. You can’t call yourself an advocate if you are declining to use accessibility tools like this. There are absolutely no excuses, especially with the technologies we have now. Most devices can read and copy the text out of any image, for example.

Basically if it’s not worth including everyone, it’s not worth posting. Make it accessible or don’t post it. Thank you

#accessibility tools #disability accessibility #disability advocacy #alt text #image id #text id #screen readers #disability accommodations #neurological disability #physical disability #invisible disability #vision impaired #sight impaired #blindness #accessibility #inclusivity #disability rights #disability community #disabled community #chronic illness community #disability vent #chronic illness vent #neurodiversity #disability problems #disabled rights #disabled things #queer disabled #disability representation #accommodations #disabled representation

[garagegalaxy]

y’know what? fuck it.

here’s to people who are visually impaired, no matter the cause.

people with cone-rod dystrophy, with retinal detachment, with sudden vision loss, with visual impairment caused by disease or stroke or tumors or head injuries.

people with macular holes/edema/pucker/telangiectasia, with coloboma, with stargardt disease, whatever it may be.

you are Absolutely Fucking Valid. don’t let anyone tell you otherwise or i will gnaw on their bones.

:3

#visually impaired #low vision #blind #blindness #positivity #positive affirmations

[blurry-eyes4u]

I've fallen in love of The thickness of those lenses

#thick glasses #guys strong glasses #guys with glasses #coke bottle glasses #blind #blind without glasses #blurry vision #highplus #magnifying glasses #plus glasses #no glasses #giant eyes #hyperopic man #hyperopia #bug eyes #blind as a bat #blur #big eyes #lost in the deep blur #visual impaired #visual aids #man with glasses #men in prescripción glasses #big-eyed #crossed eyes #prism eyeglasses #prism glasses #low vision #low vision aids