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   Thibaultmol 🌈 (thibaultmol@en.osm.town)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:12:34 JST Thibaultmol 🌈

   What is an #accessibility thing you hadn't thought about before. So like "Huh, never realized that x isn't accessible for people who y"

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     Tyrone Slothrop (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:12:33 JST Tyrone Slothrop

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     @thibaultmol I work in a corporate environment, where PowerPoint is everything.

     I never realized that coding figures etc in red (for negative) and green (for positive) wasn’t accessible for people with red/green blindness, until I worked with a red/green blind manager.

     Solved this by supplementing the colors with symbols like plus/minus.

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     Dahie (dahie@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:13:14 JST Dahie

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     @thibaultmol ~12% of men have red/green blindness, that figure stuck with me…

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     josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:13:32 JST josh susser

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     @thibaultmol protests are a big challenge. the usual big crowd stuff, standing around for ages, or not being able to find a safe place to sit, or just too big a risk of getting knocked down if there's a surge or panic.

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     AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦 (adelinej@piaille.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:13:37 JST AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦

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     @thibaultmol Places offering only phone calls for appointments… (I’m not deaf or having an hearing impairment).

     #ActuallyAutistic

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     wouterla (wouterla@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:14:05 JST wouterla

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     @thibaultmol Have you ever taken a shower in a hotel room?

     Look at the bottles of shampoo, shower-gel and conditioner on the shower wall. Notice that they are usually the same size, color, etc.

     Compare the size of the font for the (no-name, unknown, hotel-specific, ...) brand-name, and the size of the label that states WHAT IS IN THE BOTTLE.

     Now imagine you need classes, and the only letters large enough to read without bending your head to within 15cm of the bottles are the useless brand...

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     Frieke (frieke72@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:14:27 JST Frieke

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     @thibaultmol that public spaces (e.g. shops) are inaccessible for people who suffer sensory overload.

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     Muiris (muiris@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:15:09 JST Muiris

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     @thibaultmol PDFs, watched a presentation from a blind accessibility specialist. When a visually impaired person opens a PDF file the file itself must have a human readable name that can be read by their screen reader. Often developers automatically generate long serial numbers as PDF file names. With these complex names the user doesn’t know if the file successfully opened and if there are multiple PDFs they can’t tell them apart without having to open and read each of them.

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     Graceless Hippo (gracelesshippo@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:23:34 JST Graceless Hippo

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     @thibaultmol

     Food packaging that is difficult to open immediately is a problem for anyone with diminished hand use.

     Ditto for small print on food packaging with any kind of sight issue.

     These just shouldn't be a problem.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:24:17 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @thibaultmol The expiration date for food is printed way too small on food packaging for people over 50 and other people with sight issues

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     blazr (blazr@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:25:20 JST blazr

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     @thibaultmol ...if you enter a DIXIE toilet... the pissoir is unaccessible for children and by the way the pissoir is designed in a way that you have your nose nearly stuck in if you sit on a DIXIE normally. it's imho a failed design across several levels of accessability and usability and user experience.

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     Dietske van der Brugge 🍋🍉 (dietskevdbrugge@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:25:24 JST Dietske van der Brugge 🍋🍉

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     @thibaultmol Never realized that our wheelchair accessible restaurant isn't accessible for people in wheelchairs

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     awoodland (awoodland@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:25:29 JST awoodland

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     @thibaultmol replacing physical keypads on chip and pin terminals with touchscreens makes them unusable for the visually impaired. I've no idea how that's even legal to deliberately make a design choice like that which has no benefit and is so much harder to use.

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     Gin Kangaroo (ginevracat@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:26:20 JST Gin Kangaroo

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     • Simon Brooke

     @simon_brooke @thibaultmol There is a town close to me that runs a "sensory reduced" day when the fun fair is in town. I think they play no loud music and reduce the flashing lights, while keeping the rides and games running. Such a good idea.

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     Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:26:21 JST Simon Brooke

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     @thibaultmol As an #ActuallyAutistic person, crowded noisy places, like rock concerts, festivals, sports arenas, city centres, aren't accessible to me. But you can't change these places to make them accessible to me without taking away the things which make them useful and interesting to a lot of other people.

     There are accessibility things which you can do easily at no significant cost to anyone, like wheelchair ramps and #AltText and hearing loops and so on, but there are some you just can't.

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     Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (svgeesus@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:26:41 JST Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     • Dietske van der Brugge 🍋🍉

     @DietskevdBrugge @thibaultmol Only having a handrail on one side also limits accessibility for those of us who use walking aids or have balance/dexterity issues.

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     Linnèa the Library Monster (librarymonster@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:26:56 JST Linnèa the Library Monster

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     @thibaultmol Someone far more esteemed & distinguished than me was informed to take the emojis down a notch in their posts bc they add that much more time for a screenreader to explain, plus their potential double meanings are difficult to discern.

     I've never heard this before or since, and I wonder abt it. The best practice given was 3 emojis or less though, which I already follow mostly (unless the joke is a string of emojis) so maybe that's why I've never run into it...

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:27:24 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     @svgeesus And just forcing me to walk on the left side, thus being in the way of people walking there in the opposite direction, sucks rocks

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     Dahie (dahie@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:28:11 JST Dahie

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     @thibaultmol In the past two years there have been multiple cases in Germany of people in wheelchair being left behind on train evacuations (https://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article239016261/deutsche-bahn-rollstuhl-behinderung-chaos-evakuierung.html, https://taz.de/Mit-Rollstuhl-in-der-S-Bahn/!6093060/) reflecting how emergency scenarios don't consider #accessibility needs enough.

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     Thibaultmol 🌈 (thibaultmol@en.osm.town)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 22:28:50 JST Thibaultmol 🌈

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     • Dietske van der Brugge 🍋🍉

     @DietskevdBrugge oof xd.

     Also here is some Alt text for that image, feel free to edit your posts and add it:

     Two marble-clad steps lead up to a raised mall dining area. A stainless steel handrail stands between the steps and a supposedly accessibility ramp. (But the ramp is cut off where the lowest step begins. Instead of continuing all the way so that it's flush to the floor). Resulting in there being an entire step's height from the floor to where the ramp begins

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 23:02:03 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @lednaBM Onteasingly?

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     👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵 (lednabm@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 23:02:05 JST 👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe @thibaultmol Onteasingly, I have that problem as well.