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| lets talk about melonland, neocities, and adjacent. melon designs websites for a very wide audience like melon's stuff is intended to be used by many groups of different folks so.... the fact that the forum is so blatantly lacking in very basic accessibility features is inexcusable to me. more on that later, more below. | {{tag> tech}} |
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| | lets talk about melonland, neocities, and adjacent. |
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| | melon designs websites for a very wide audience like melon's stuff is intended to be used by many groups of different folks so.... the fact that the forum is so blatantly lacking in very basic accessibility features is inexcusable to me. |
| it is a symptom of a wider trend i see in small web spaces where disabled people are thought of not LAST, but NEVER. and it's not even a trend, is it, when that's the default state of the world. and you'd think that the small web folks would be interested in providing a good and concrete space for the people whose lives are truly internet-centric; the disabled. people who live in extremely rural areas. people who cannot drive or who are solely dependent on others to get them places. homeschooled teenagers. uhhh Disabled People. and so on. you'd think, right? yet somehow the small web is not really a web in and of itself anymore, but rather more like a spiral of resentment towards "mainstream social media" and being "plugged in". and I GET IT. i recognize that: | it is a symptom of a wider trend i see in small web spaces where disabled people are thought of not LAST, but NEVER. and it's not even a trend, is it, when that's the default state of the world. and you'd think that the small web folks would be interested in providing a good and concrete space for the people whose lives are truly internet-centric; the disabled. people who live in extremely rural areas. people who cannot drive or who are solely dependent on others to get them places. homeschooled teenagers. uhhh Disabled People. and so on. you'd think, right? yet somehow the small web is not really a web in and of itself anymore, but rather more like a spiral of resentment towards "mainstream social media" and being "plugged in". and I GET IT. i recognize that: |
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| don't get me wrong, like, i'm not saying we should let other people control every single thing on your site or your site's rules or whatever, you dont have to change your behaviors i cant control you i dont wish to. and i am not saying that there shouldn't be an encouragement of a healthy balance between constant doomscrolling or whatever and offline hobbies/activities. i would hope that this is not interpreted as saying such things. what i AM saying: take a long thinking session about why you want to learn webdev/html/css soooo bad but consider accessibility optional as if that is not a major part of learning those languages/topics. think about why you consider an internet reliant life to be lesser, embarrassing, or inherently deeply toxic. and try to learn more about all the various disabilities and reasons people have for being internet reliant. | don't get me wrong, like, i'm not saying we should let other people control every single thing on your site or your site's rules or whatever, you dont have to change your behaviors i cant control you i dont wish to. and i am not saying that there shouldn't be an encouragement of a healthy balance between constant doomscrolling or whatever and offline hobbies/activities. i would hope that this is not interpreted as saying such things. what i AM saying: take a long thinking session about why you want to learn webdev/html/css soooo bad but consider accessibility optional as if that is not a major part of learning those languages/topics. think about why you consider an internet reliant life to be lesser, embarrassing, or inherently deeply toxic. and try to learn more about all the various disabilities and reasons people have for being internet reliant. |
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