[stylist] Writer's Rant: Unchain Me from This PC!

[Applebutter Hill]

Hi Jackie,
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have many blind followers and even more
sighted ones, and I am writing for the widest audience I can get. I believe
that educating the public about the realities of blindness in whatever way
they might respond to is our greatest hope for true integration. I use
pictures for those who can see them and add "alt tags" to give readers like
myself an idea what the picture is.

I used to spend more time on the alt tags, but I'm simply too burned out and
busy at this point, and I didn't get much in the way of comments suggesting
that the alt tags were appreciated or helpful.  For me, as a reader, I just
cringe when I encounter a graphic which just has some incomprehensible
string of jibberish, so any little hint about the photo works much better.

I have ideas for posts about nature, but it's been months since I wrote
anything at all, so I'm not making any promises. I would like to add audio
clips - I have a great one of our frogs at midnight on the pond. I spent
several hours this week trying to get it up on either Sound Cloud or
Audioboom, and ran into some problems (some having to do with the
accessibility of the form to report problems). I had some luck with it a
couple of years ago, but things have changed -- so what else is new *grin*
 Donna

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Donna,
This was indeed a rant, but a very informative and valid rant. I would join
you on H P printers, and avoid the company for anything because of my
experience with them.
About your article, It addresses all of the issues that a blind person faces
in a detailed way and will save many of us a lot of time.
It also touches on the fact that over time, most things have become less
accessible because of the rapid change in technology making it even more
intricate and hard to keep up.
I wonder about the use of Rich's pictures in this article. If the article is
meant for the sighted, they must be lovely. For the blind, what is the
significance? The verbal description of the frog made some sense to me in
terms of the content. I could not make him out visually.
I am wondering if you could write an article more in keeping with your
wonderful time outside, its peace and beauty and restorative qualities, and
have all of those pictures in that article.
It just seems to me that your choice right now is for both the seeing and
blind audience, yet the audience of the writing itself is for the blind who
do not need a screen. Incidentally, this was a wonderful point to make that
most sighted people do not even think about. Surprising that even the
so-called accessible engineers would not have considered it.
Over-all, a wonderful job of writing. And I love rants. Mine are usually
poetic rants that I bury!


Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

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Subject: [stylist] Writer's Rant: Unchain Me from This PC!

As some of you know, I've been seeking advice and info on getting a tablet
or small laptop. After your suggestions, I did some shopping and had an
experience that provoked a blog post out of me. I was going for a
light-hearted piece that would capture the attention of sighted writers and
computer users, but would contain a nugget of truth about what we as people
who access the world nonvisually deal with in the way of accessibility
issues. I'd appreciate it if you would read this and give me feedback about
how it comes across. The link is below my name.

Thanks,

Donna

http://donnawhill.com/2015/07/28/writers-rant-unchain-me-from-this-pc/




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