• Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I hope reddit advertisers can see this. Why would you want to be associated with a site that discriminates against the blind?

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    1 year ago

    Someone needs to start a “campaign” for naming and shaming companies who advertises on Reddit. “[This company] supports a company that actively discriminates against the disabled. #SayNoToReddit”

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      1 year ago

      honestly yes. While I do think “ableism” is sometimes took to a bit of an extreme, in this case it’s good… and serves the good purpose of making Reddit even less money, which is a good purpose in and of itself!

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    I read the thread and I kind of cringed inside. I understand the moderators of r/blind want to keep the resources & information accessible but they actually tried to negotiate and sort it out with Reddit according to their words and Reddit just didn’t give a fuck about them. What I would’ve done is just nuke the sub and move to Lemmy yet they continue to eat shit from u/spez

    I feel for them.

    • Kuroshi@lemmy.ramble.moe
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      1 year ago

      I’ve not looked for myself, but does Lemmy or Kbin have good, accessible tooling? They’re both much more modern so I would expect that it would be a priority, but they’re also much less mature so I wouldn’t be surprised if little in that way has been implemented yet.

    • ClassyHatter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      r/Blind is still a valuable resource for many people. No sense denying people access to it. r/Blind mods already created a Lemmy instance which they try to promote for their members. But learning new software can be challenging when you can’t see, especially if the software isn’t very accessible.

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        1 year ago

        r/Blind is still a valuable resource for Reddit to exploit many people, especially blind people.

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    1 year ago

    What’s so stupid is that they don’t even have to do that. alt text can be fucking handled by eslint and a pipeline checker. This is basic devops. Reddit has 1400 employees, wtf are they doing?