With these sites its actually not even a metaphor at all. Its a literal accessibility issue because closed sites like twitter and reddit dont allow open API access for apps building features for blind or deaf people.
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days agoAs a disabled person I don’t think that’s a fair comparison to use.
People on mastodon have a choice, it’s an awful choice which comes with privacy and contributing to corporate trash, being advertised at non-stop compromises, which in my opinion no one should have to make.
But you can still see it. Disabled people just straight up can’t use the stairs. It’s not that it’s a shit compromise for us. It’s that we are physically unable too.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Yes definitely for hard of hearing and hard of sight people it can be an accessibility issue. I’m mostly deaf myself.
But comparing the situation for abled people in the way it was above doesn’t really work.
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The term “accessibility” is not the exclusive domain of the physically disabled. Accessibility affects all people across race, gender, class, age and disability.
It’s questionable to imply choice when the alternative has significant negative consequences.
If I were chained to a wall against my will and given a saw. Sure I have a choice to free myself by cutting off a limb, but at what cost?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That’s not the point I was making. Just that the wheelchair ramp comparison doesn’t work.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I dunno. You could throw yourself down the stairs. It’s an awful choice, but you could still do it…
The point is, a choice with all kinds of negative consequences to it isn’t really a choice.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I can’t throw myself up the stairs.
sxan@midwest.social 2 days ago
Agreed. By @FundMECFSResearch’s distinction, you (well, Americans) could choose to not pay taxes. You literally are able to not do it. Of course, you then have to deal with the consequences, but it falls in the same category of “optional.”
Gender-affirming surgery is “optional.” Eating food other than cat food is optional. Simply having the ability to make a choice between two options is not sufficient to justify saying both options are satisfactory.