try harder?

[beccaelizabeth]

I just actually had to read with my own eyes
"if your disability makes you bad at a thing just put in extra effort or don't do it"
as an argument against basic accessability features

and now I want to Hulk smash
but a certain kind of person thinks that means they win the argument

so I will just... breathe... and...

*grrrrrrrrrrrrr*



Like, stairs are accessability features. There are rules about the height of steps and provision of handrails and not just putting in a ladder and calling it good. I don't know anybody arguing against that. Because they use stairs. So they notice actually having them is good.

So why do you get some people actually out loud arguing against the provision of optional features that they won't ever use or even have to notice are there

on the basis that disabled people could just try harder?

they could just jump to the first floor or stay on the ground
but if someone took the stairs away do you think they'd live by their own argument?

you'd never hear the end of it.




Just, make things accessable
ffs
it's simply better design for everyone.

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[petra]

It's too bad there's no simple killfile keyword for "massive stupidity about disability." I can killfile "opioid crisis" and miss a lot of stupidity about chronic pain treatment, but nothing I can think of catches "I am a random internet user and I think I know a thing about disabilities!"

My invisible disabilities and I hear you.

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*

[conuly]

That person is gonna have a disability one day, and the schadenfreude is gonna be sweeeeeeeet.