Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@hazelnot @freakazoid https://starshipgender.com/disability-driven-development/index.html is a long read but probably very relevant to this topic

@cy You need to think long and hard about why your default assumption is that someone criticizing the accessibility of open-source must be (paraphrasing) some 'corporate plant' or otherwise malicious actor. Instead of looking inward about what *you* can do to improve the situation.

@cy It's not "consolation" to talk down on people like that and essentially blame them for "allowing them" to do something that they don't even have control over. It's gloating. "Well, but *I* don't have that problem over here in open-source land..."

If you think closed-source code should be illegal, great, I completely agree! So go fight for that yourself instead of placing that expectation on someone else.

@nazokiyoubinbou @weirdwriter You are giving off the impression that you are trivializing the issue, because you chose to post your "general rant" in response to someone speaking about a personal experience, as if to imply that the personal experience is of less importance than your rant. If it's meant as a "general rant", then why didn't you post it as your own post on your own timeline instead?

Telling someone "it isn't that bad" also isn't helpful. They *live* this experience and so it is vanishingly unlikely that you will have anything useful to add to it, or that your understanding of the situation is better than theirs. Sometimes it is better to just not comment.

If you want to be helpful, then you could offer something along the lines of "do you want me to push for better accessibility for you in projects, or help find something that works better for you?", to take some of the work off their shoulders. What you're doing now is just being defensive and basically invalidating someone's experience while you have zero skin in the game yourself.

In short, what you're doing here is what people are talking about when they complain about "reply guys". Don't do that.

@nazokiyoubinbou @weirdwriter

"Everyone always taking the path of least resistance is why [...]"

While this is true in principle, you should be mindful of who you're asking to take the first steps against that (because that's the phase we're in right now), and whether you aren't asking the most marginalized folks to do the most work there.

@cy @weirdwriter Don't make this kind of reply. This doesn't help them in any way and all it does is place *your* expectations on someone else who didn't ask for that.