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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Angry hot take: If you are an expensive "accessibility professional", and the reports you're generating and sending to your clients are inaccessible, you should just get a new job. There is no hope for you. I've encountered that three times, from three different people, this month. WTF?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I would also appreciate it if you were less surprised when the person consuming your report turns out to be a person with a disability. Thanks!
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sarah tonin wlfBlep @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt
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@fastfinge well known only abled people use computers to do stuff eh ?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Right. And nobody with a disability is going to work in the accessibility industry. Why would we be interested in doing something like that? :-(
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sarah tonin wlfBlep @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt
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@fastfinge that's a strong one
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT It's a frustrated one. There are too many people in the accessibility industry who seem not to be able to create accessible artifacts themselves, yet charge hundreds of dollars an hour to advise other companies on how to do it.
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sarah tonin wlfBlep @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt
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@fastfinge yea, depends kind of on the medium i guess ? accessibility on odfs / pdfs in general is just rough, but if it's something like an html document then they have no excuses
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Hah, ODF? I wish. Try untagged PDFS. Or word documents with no headings or titles for any of the tables, and no alt text for any of the screen shots, and priority/ severity only indicated by colour.
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sarah tonin wlfBlep @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt
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@fastfinge sometimes i wish they just sent text files

no formatting no images no eye candy, just text

i mean they'd somehow be able to turn even that unuseable so maybe it's just wishful thinking
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Of course. They'd start out with an enormous ascii art version of their logo. We saw that with smallweb stuff like gemtext. When you deny people formatting and images, they just replace it with ascii art and unicode symbols.
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sarah tonin wlfBlep @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt
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@fastfinge oh right the unicode characters for fonts, why do those even exist
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Lynette @lynessence@caneandable.social
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@fastfinge Oh, you mean one of the many professionals who doesn't have a disability? It angers me that there are lots of qualified disabled folks looking for jobs in the accessibility space, but hiring practices are still discriminatory. It's fine to have nondisabled allies, but there needs to be more equal representation of actual disabled people working in the industry.
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Ka Li @KnowledgeableKa@mstdn.party
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@lynessence @fastfinge Agree to all of this. I would go further to say that we not only need accessibility professionals who are disabled but in positions of leadership where their concerns carry weight. I don't know with these reports if the lack of accessibility was raised as a concern and ignored by someone higher up or simply carelessness and ableist views, but nonetheless frustrating as all hell.
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Lynette @lynessence@caneandable.social
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@KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge Agree 100%!!! And the same applies to companies and organizations that say they serve disabled people in some way. This is why I refuse to have anything to do with or ask for any help from CNIB. I don't know if their CEO is blind, but they did have a sighted one for years. And I know lots of blind people who work there in support roles, but none in leadership. CNIB isn't the only one, of course, there are many others.
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Brian Moore @bmoore123@tweesecake.social
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@lynessence @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge she is not blind
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Chris Smart @VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio
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@bmoore123 @lynessence @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge Have CNIB had a blind CEO since Euclid Herrie?
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Lynette @lynessence@caneandable.social
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@VE3RWJ @bmoore123 @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge I think he was the last one.
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Brian Moore @bmoore123@tweesecake.social
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@VE3RWJ @lynessence @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge yes, Jim Sanders from 2008 to 2013 I think. I might be remembering wrong. I don't care that much what they do so my dates might be wrong.
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Lynette @lynessence@caneandable.social
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@bmoore123 @VE3RWJ @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge Oh, I forgot about Jim Sanders.
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Lynette @lynessence@caneandable.social
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@bmoore123 @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge Okay, I didn't think so. Isn't it in their charter that the CEO has to be blind?
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Brian Moore @bmoore123@tweesecake.social
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@lynessence @KnowledgeableKa @fastfinge no, they took it out of the charter in 2008 I think
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Justin Macleod @JustinMac84@mastodon.social
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@fastfinge That is just weird.
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James Scholes @jscholes@dragonscave.space
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@fastfinge Accessibility work: come for the good feelings, stay because the job market is fucked, leave when you can no longer think of ways to describe someone's efforts as pathetic in a professional way.
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