since am one of those #ActuallyAutistic people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.
so next time you see a NANNY, a NURSE, a SUPERMARKET WORKER a SHORT ORDER COOK who is Black, or Latine or Native American, or all three and even then A WOMAN, you may be dealing with a multilingual savant who was never given a chance to make their mark in history because of how they looked.
even worse, those people may even exhibit the characteristics of #autism#adhd#dyslexia and have never gotten the help & mentorship they needed because of what they look like and where they come from...🧵
AND IF YOU ARE A TEACHER IN PARTICULAR it would be wise to reconsider how "slow" or "not so smart" is that bilingual kid in your class.
BILINGUISM IS NOT NORMAL so the fact they can speak more languages than YOU prove they can do more with their brain than you. so why treat them as defective, less than, even useless?
@bookstodon@bookwyrm
If you read large print or dyslexic font paperback books do you prefer this to be indicated on the cover (say on a banner at the top) to help you identify the accommodation?
I compiled a quick poll based on different perspectives I've read.
➡️ Please consider sharing to help me reach more readers.
Did you find a way to address the issues presented while keeping #IconFonts?
Basically:
When our friends with #Dyslexia overrides your fonts, font icons turn into black boxes since the font they're using doesn't have support for those Unicode code blocks.
When screenreaders, or voice assistance, reads a site with icon fonts, they read the icon fonts really weird.
For No.2, a site with properly marked aria labels, or marked as hidden for assistive tech, is the solution I can think of.
However, for No.1, I can't think of a way since once the browser forces the user font, all fonts on the site will rely on the user's custom font.
The only other way I can think of is to provide an option to switch the site's font right from the website, so they don't have to override the site's font.
I am working on a revised cover for Late-Identified AuDHD: A Beginner's Workbook (retitled 2nd edition). I've been repeatedly advised that using a dyslexic-friendly font in my work is unprofessional. Well, I am a professional with dyslexia... and the use of dyslexia-friendly fonts is a professional choice. Hard line.
Hey neurodivergent friends - we've got a lot of good places to discuss across fedi and I've been thinking that we don't always have a place the share with each other across groups for specific conditions. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet 😅
At any rate, I made a group for us: @neurodivergents
I like that they have basic moderation, which can help conversations. I'm not trying to impose my own will on anyone, and I envision it as a self-governing community group
had to take an actual photo of my laptop's screen because i can't get a screenshot of it with the Mastodon deck search field tab exposed.
am kinda frustrated with the #accessibility issues i've had with the platform. no matter what i tried, i could not properly perform a search... because i couldn't register correctly what i was seeing in that exposed tab.
where it not for the #Stylebot#Firefox extension, i would have ditched Mastodon a long time ago.
This may be a long shot: Does anybody know how to get selectable text to speech going for a Chromebook in Kiosk mode? Using ChromeVox is disruptive; the user only needs to read a paragraph on the page, not navigate it.
I have three big updates planned for @mastowatch in the short term and one of them is focused on #accessibility. I want to go back and make sure that things are properly labeled and properly grouped for folks using assistive technology. In that same vein, I am looking at adding support for more accessible fonts as an option. What do folks think of fonts like this, geared toward people with #dyslexia? https://opendyslexic.org/