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Update to my bio, enjoy. This is my first post on here. I’m 39 years old, and am totally blind in both eyes. I also use a prosthetic leg on the left side. I live in my own place, and am LGBT. Specifically I’m Pansexual, Non-Binary and am proud of it! I’m also Self-Diagnosed Autistic. I’m also proud of that! I really enjoy reading books, listening to music especially Metal Music and writing. I like journaling as well, and blogging. I hope everyone likes what I have to say. 35 comments
@JamesHeady Pin your introductory post to the top, if you can. That way people can read about you first thing when they open your page. @JamesHeady welcome! I like reading too, there's a great book community here. The hashtag #Bookstodon has great book posts. A great way to meet people here is to click on hashtags you like and then follow them. Then posts about topics that interest you will show up in your timeline and you can meet people with similar interests! @Jennifer I’m glad you like reading as well, and thanks for letting me know about the hashtags. I’ll definitely check that out, as well as the book community you mentioned. It’s nice to meet you. @JamesHeady Glad to see you made it! If you need some help following tags, I would recommend, #Music #BloomScrolling #Disability #Books and #Capitalism this place is very, very, anti corporate, anti capitalist. Very much supports independent artists, independent musicians, independent writers, and a lot of people take accessibility here very seriously @weirdwriter Thank you, I’ll definitely check all that out. I’m really glad to hear the people take accessibility very seriously here. I’m glad I signed up on here as well. It’s good to see you on here too. @JamesHeady Speaking of books, I recently had this to say. Jonathan is Blind https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/113277481330464074 @weirdwriter Thanks Rob for sharing that. I hear Ableist Bullshit like that from blind people all the time.  @JamesHeady @weirdwriter You may find out soon that people here post a lot of cat photos and dog photos! I hope those you run across here have the alt text for your to read. Most of the people I know here do post alt text.   Hey, welcome James! Hope you have fun here. I'm an unofficial tech support account, feel free to ask if you want help with using this place.  @JamesHeady 👋 hello and welcome! If I may ask, what technology/process do you use to interact with computers? Is it a screen reader? How do you find the experience? Thanks! @kitten_tech I use an iPhone, and I use the screen reader on it called voiceover. It’s a really good experience using it. @JamesHeady an iPhone! Interesting, how do you do text entry on that? I would presume the normal touchscreen keyboard is completely useless if you can't see the "keys". If a factory fresh new iPhone was handed to you, can all these accessibility features be turned on by a blind person from the initial setup process, or do you need a sighted person to set it up? (I'm asking because I work in software, albeit not in frontend development, but it worries me how little many in the industry... @JamesHeady ...seek to care about this stuff, saying "Oh it's only 0.2% of users" or the like, and I want to know just what the effects of that attitude are like on the other side of the screen...) @kitten_tech When I take my iPhone out of the box when I get a new one, I hold down the power button until it turns on, then I press it three times which activates Voice Over. Once it’s all set up with the stuff transferred to it from my old iPhone, I connect my blue tooth keyboard to it and that’s how I type. I agree, that tech companies need to do more to include disabled people and blind people in making this stuff more accessible for us. Apple fortunately does a good job with this. @JamesHeady Welcome!  @JamesHeady Waves hello and welcome to Mastodon! I LOVE it here. I hope you enjoy it too. :)  |
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