"Blind people can't see ads anyway"
-- u/spez, probably
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"Blind people can't see ads anyway"
-- u/spez, probably
I could unironically see this being a real reason why they don't care much about the blind community
I'm surprised he hadn't said the quiet part out loud yet in another AMA.
Fuck spez!! 🖕🖕
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?
They said they were letting accessibility based tools keep using the API for free. (Don't mistake this as me defending Reddit's actions.)
There are ADA concerns even for places you wouldn't expect but I'm not sure if it applies to social media.
I guess the "won't effect accessibility apps" was also a blatant lie...
I'm glad they're making changes.
spezzy and his jackbooted thugs are busy busy telling big fat porkies to users, issuing threats to mods, and secretly creating new content policy.
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?
adminforge hosts libreddit, a private front-end to reddit.
I didn't see that coming.
Pun intended?
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Way to go!
will redditinc realize their precious spezzy is burning down reddit?
@xuxebiko this is a decision of the entire board of directors
they're a stupid lot then. threatening mods & angering users will simply ensure their IPO burns to ashes.
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.
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
I imagine the relatively simple web design of these federated Reddit alternatives would be a blessing for reading apps commonly used by the blind.
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.
Good for them. Get after it.
Makes sense to me.