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surskitty:
This post brought to you by that one post going around saying to tag sarcasm for autistic people:
No, tag sarcasm for people with a low threshold for Poe’s law. Some of those people are autistic. Plenty of autistic people can usually identify sarcasm and satire. Plenty of allistic people can’t. Everyone sometimes messes it up. That’s the whole reason ‘Poe’s law’ is a concept: everybody’s coming into conversation from a different context, and no one can always tell what that person would think is a reasonable opinion to express.
Stop spreading condescending posts framing things as ‘do this for people with $specific_disability so you will be the Understanding Able Person’ when plenty of people without it would benefit and plenty of people with it would not. I guarantee you that for any accommodation you can think of, there is someone who would never in their life identify as disabled who could benefit. It’s also likely that that plenty of people who you might think would need that specific accommodation would find it completely useless. People are different and disability is a complicated thing.
If it is helpful for you specifically to have a thing tagged? Say so. You’re a person, too, and you don’t need to generalise for it to be more valid.
And there is this huuuuuuuuge tendency for people to reblog every ‘please tag #trigger’ post they see as a self-congratulatory backpat that’s coupled with neglecting certain other very straightforward accessibility concerns. Namely, keep your tumblr layout neat and readable, your background static (no gifs) and uncluttered behind your text, your colour-scheme simple and not involving extremely saturated colours, your autoplay off or nonexistent (so, remove the ‘auto’ from your ‘autoplay’), your font size legible, your images described (link is to a blind dreamwidth user’s suggestions for helpful alt text), and if you don’t have time & energy to transcribe audio and video, at least label them. If not? You’re being about as generally helpful as that one kid who’d made a completely useless braille printer out of legos. Tagging every single picture with a face in it ‘scopophobia’ isn’t going to start meaning your blog’s accessible.
And as before, these are all things that aren’t specific to people with disabilities! Some people have slow internet connections, or limited bandwidth. Tumblr mobile doesn’t always load images. Audio and video posts often won’t play at all no matter what you do. If you don’t have the energy or time to describe them extensively, label it in a few words that at least give enough context to let someone know if they want to check it later, or have someone else check it.
Use some discernment.
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This post brought to you by that one post going around saying to tag sarcasm for autistic people:
No, tag sarcasm for people with a low threshold for Poe’s law. Some of those people are autistic. Plenty of autistic people can usually identify sarcasm and satire. Plenty of allistic people can’t. Everyone sometimes messes it up. That’s the whole reason ‘Poe’s law’ is a concept: everybody’s coming into conversation from a different context, and no one can always tell what that person would think is a reasonable opinion to express.
Stop spreading condescending posts framing things as ‘do this for people with $specific_disability so you will be the Understanding Able Person’ when plenty of people without it would benefit and plenty of people with it would not. I guarantee you that for any accommodation you can think of, there is someone who would never in their life identify as disabled who could benefit. It’s also likely that that plenty of people who you might think would need that specific accommodation would find it completely useless. People are different and disability is a complicated thing.
If it is helpful for you specifically to have a thing tagged? Say so. You’re a person, too, and you don’t need to generalise for it to be more valid.
And there is this huuuuuuuuge tendency for people to reblog every ‘please tag #trigger’ post they see as a self-congratulatory backpat that’s coupled with neglecting certain other very straightforward accessibility concerns. Namely, keep your tumblr layout neat and readable, your background static (no gifs) and uncluttered behind your text, your colour-scheme simple and not involving extremely saturated colours, your autoplay off or nonexistent (so, remove the ‘auto’ from your ‘autoplay’), your font size legible, your images described (link is to a blind dreamwidth user’s suggestions for helpful alt text), and if you don’t have time & energy to transcribe audio and video, at least label them. If not? You’re being about as generally helpful as that one kid who’d made a completely useless braille printer out of legos. Tagging every single picture with a face in it ‘scopophobia’ isn’t going to start meaning your blog’s accessible.
And as before, these are all things that aren’t specific to people with disabilities! Some people have slow internet connections, or limited bandwidth. Tumblr mobile doesn’t always load images. Audio and video posts often won’t play at all no matter what you do. If you don’t have the energy or time to describe them extensively, label it in a few words that at least give enough context to let someone know if they want to check it later, or have someone else check it.
Use some discernment.
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