A satirical jab at the sighted people who create technology for blind people without ever talking to us about what we need, in parity radio news form. Hear the rest at https://deepsy.net/p/bonus-episode-glass-eye-witness-news #Blind #Blindness #Disability #AssistiveTech #Parody #Satire #DeepSy
During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity.
In this video I break down what was represented well, what wasn't, and we get into some really interesting #blindness and #disability topics along the way. Hopefully it might teach a thing or two :) https://youtu.be/qE81d4Pcw9E
#disability #disabilities #blindness #representation #indieGames #gaming #youtube #selfPromo
New post: Grieving the Version of Me Everyone Thought I Was
https://lanie.work/advocacy/grieving-the-version-of-me/
#Disability #Autism #Blindness #Chronic-Illness #Long-Term-Care #Caregiving #Advocacy
Found another vibe coded app I actually like! The other is AudioBooth. Audiobook player for AudiobookShelf But this one is actually great to use, which amazes me. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earshot-podcasts/id6770760602 #Blind #Blindness.
What VoiceOver setting changes the, slide to type, feedback, using Apple's keyboard? I changed some settings in iOS 26 to quiet some of the sounds but now I can't remember what I changed to where VoiceOver would stop announcing suggestions, or autocomplete stuff... #Apple #IOS #Blind #Blindness
Hey blind people, can you rethink your hate of audiobooks now? Is Listening to a Book “Cheating”? (Spoiler: Your Brain Doesn’t Think So) https://action.everylibrary.org/is_listening_to_a_book_cheating_spoiler_your_brain_doesn_t_think_so #Blind #Blindness #Ableism
PSA to other blind people, rating a Deaf Uber driver 1 star with a safety violation because of a disability clash and because you are totally blind is a very ableist thing to do.
There's texting. There are ASL classes for the blind. I took one years ago at the school for the Deaf and the Blind I attended. I have Deaf friends teach me ASL via touch.
I know ASL is a visual language, but let's not be ableist because we are blind ourselves.
There’s a good reason why I choose to never attend blindness conventions, or assimilate myself with a lot of the blindness groups here in the US. I prefer hanging around a smaller contingency of blind people rather than the larger groups. Aside from the fact that the blind community is often extremely racist towards disabled people of color, trans phobic and homophobic to the disabled LGBT plus members, ableist to other disability groups, the community as a whole participates in techno ableism. The community chides others for choosing to not willingly participate in capitalism any longer. The community values independence rather than interdependence. I do not see eye to eye on many of the single disability issues the community at large advocates for, especially as it relates to employment and accessibility access at the risk of my and others privacy. The community is too focused on getting others to assimilate and comply with a hostile capitalistic system rather than encouraging others to live their best blind and or disabled lives even if they do not work.
This is also why I prefer to hang around other disabled people and other disability groups outside of my blindness. They do not follow these same rigid desires.
I haven’t even touched on the internal discrimination I have seen from blind people to other blind people. I have repeatedly witnessed workplace discrimination that was a lot worse than none disabled bosses.
And that isn’t even the half of everything else.
For the evening/afternoon crowd, The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-hostage-negotiation-of-the-front-facing-camera/ #Zoom #Phone #Blind #Blindness #Disability
