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Eye contact warnings
I’m sooooooooooo glad I’ve learnt about these
Since I’ve joined Tech.LGBT I’ve come to learn about various content warnings. One such warning that I hadn’t realised I wasn’t giving for my own website was for eye contact - I had a giant selfie photo in my posts list! I’ve since fixed that: see git commit here .
Lots of adults - primarily my mother - taught me to treat equally those we know to be different. And most importantly you have to moderate yourself in order to help those you haven’t even met yet when you know about some issues, phobias, or disabilities.
The web is meant to be accessible - it HAS to be accessible - and it’s been built in a way that makes this easy. Some things are easier than others though, i.e. some things have built-ins to provide accessible functionality, whereas others require more work from the author.
But that work is NECESSARY! Well, by saying “necessary” I perhaps invite discussion of technicalities into pros and cons and morals and efforts and this and that, but what I mmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaannn is that accessibility is important and YOU SHOULD DO YOUR UTMOST. The effort is worthwhile! You can feel good for being a good and helpful individual in our wide and varied online society!
✨DO ACCESSIBILITY MORE, YOU FOOLS.✨
I did it. Didn’t take long. Of course, there’s the whole thing that images are replaced elements so you can’t add pseudo-elements to them, so a little extra effort was required... but boy, it was easy once I thought about if for a little bit! The power of HTML + CSS y’all. Honestly.
Just do the minimum and help everyone to read your content 🥰
We live in a society.
— some guy
So you should do your utmost to help others where you have the knowledge to do so.
— me