I could unironically see this being a real reason why they don't care much about the blind community
I am not American but doesn't this technically violate the ADA? Also that sounds in character for spez.
Also not adhesiveness, soooo no idea. Are they're actually laws over there that enforce accessibility for websites? I'd be surprised if there was...
EDIT: American, not adhesiveness. WTF is with AI predictive text and autocorrect being so trash?
Fuck spez!! 🖕🖕
That's atrocious! I hope someone is sending this post to a few media outlets.
Edit: found this--
"If you are a current or former Reddit moderator or employee, I’m interested in hearing from you. Feel free to email me at jay.peters@theverge.com."
It's so very obviously clear that they really don't care, except that the fact that dismissing blind users brings bad press (and bad press that's broadly understandable unlike the current stories out there)
They'll make promises, and deliver a slightly late and underbaked little thing that kinda helps then basically forget about it.
Reddit is currently prioritizing accessibility for users rather than for moderators, and representatives were unwilling to provide timelines by when Reddit’s moderation tools would be accessible for screen reader users.
Reddit has a history of empty promises when it comes to supporting moderators and mod tools. r/AskHistorians covered it (mirror) before the blackout protest.
Good on r/blind for taking power into their own hands.
Like, these aren't new problems - anyone who uses Reddit much knows these issues have existed and have been talked about forever
It's so gross to hear that Reddit admins "weren't fully aware" of these issues, they're either lying or revealing that they truly do not give a hoot,
spezzy and his jackbooted thugs are busy busy telling big fat porkies to users, issuing threats to mods, and secretly creating new content policy.
https://reddit.adminforge.de/...
ETA : changed 'they' to 'spezzy and his jackbooted thugs' to avoid confusion.
I have started seeing adminforge links I am guessing that it is a webscraper that shows what is posted to reddit?
I didn't see that coming.
Pun intended?
Good for them. Get after it.
I guess that checks out if they are incompetent enough to lose money while all of their moderators are doing all the work for free then they are probably not the brightest.
Being opensource also means that the blind community, that knows better than anyone else what they need, can also freely contribute to the project, being reporting bugs, requesting features, and if they have developers they can fix things themselves and submit their fixes to the code for everyone to use.
You love to hear it. The beauty of open source is that you can extend it to fit your own needs. For those with disabilities, it is a means of direct empowerment -- a critical tool for overcoming obstacles without needing to beg others for help.
I look forward to hearing about the inevitable platform improvements this will bring, but I'm even more glad that the /r/blind community is able to walk away with dignity. Reddit's handling of the accessibility situation has long since crossed the line from disrespectful to insulting.
How embarrassing that lemmy devs who have less than 1% the budget of reddit were ready willing and able to provide the kind of support that the r/blind mods felt comfortable just walking away from reddit and running there own lemmy instance
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