RantWoman wants to celebrate all these efforts. RantWoman even prefers to lurk somewhere in the realm of responsible functional adult role model. But this is RantWoman! RantWoman teeters most of the time between "Wow gee whiz look what FUN, #a11y achievements and productivity boons RantWoman finds" and "Holy Crap there are still a lot of Potholes on the Information Superhighway (last century term. Does anyone besides RantWoman still use it?)"
RantWoman has been celebrating #DiW2018 #DigitalInclusion freaking WEEK with an assortment of reflections on what all is included in RantWoman's Inclusion experiences.
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| The railroad bridge at the Ballard Locks |
@Buzzfeed is mystified by the possibility that someone with a white cane can also be observed LOOKING AT their phone on the bus. So clearly the whole internet needs testimonials from all the other cane carrying, GLASSES-wearing inveterate sowers of confusion who also read their phones on the bus. RantWoman's visual experiences include fog, blur, grow-your-own-lava-lamp floaters double and misaligned vision. Yes, the glasses make enough difference that RantWoman uses both eyes and screen reader to interact with her phone. No, RantWoman still cannot necessarily tell anything about all that non-verbal stuff that splatters all over people's faces. And another thing: RantWoman is glad to tell anyone who asks how much help Ambassador Thwack the white cane is.
May RantWoman please feel exceedingly proud of herself for helping a customer at the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing figure out that putting in an updated credit card expiration date would probably solve the payment problem for his iCloud account? PS A lot of things on the iPad in question were in Chinese so the task was as much communication, trial and error, and intercultural cheerleading as technological prowess.
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| The same bridge as a Bitmap Too much detail to recognize tactile-ly |
RantWoman gave herself permission to take a tactile graphics break. This time RantWoman started with the search string "drawbridge Seattle". RantWoman chose images and found an image of her favorite local railroad bridge. RantWoman also solved the problem of landscape orientation, some scaling issues but not the how to change the text in the braille title problem.
About the time RantWoman was grumbling to herself that she really should hook up with some kind of graphical talent for further tactile graphics experimentation, along came, floating atop the Twitter sea, this brilliant illustration of the perils of well, readers decide:
https://journal6other.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/sarah-syndrome-serial-killers-mass-shooters-sexual-assault-and-rebranding-seattle-public-library/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The piece is LONG. RantWoman recommends reading a few paragraphs and then coming up for air, such as available around RantWoman commentary. To wit:
--The author needs and editor. So does RantWoman, so RantWoman's observation counts as peer support.
--Does this author seem like someone whose prose RantWoman could corral? Not so much, but there is mention of badly needed graphical talent, RantWoman is used to coping with artistes, and RantWoman is willing to try about encouraging #a11y measures such as tagging graphics. If this accidentally resulted in the optionof mentioning accessibility somehow on a resume, uh....
--Lamentably, the Friendly Neighborhood Center... does not even try to make all the tools this author mentions play together. Instead RantWoman's expectation is "you will have the glorious opportunity to meet RantWoman's expectations:" Do not ask the legally blind lady to help with Graphic design. Make it look like the designer knows what they are doing with the tools available.
OR try to summon enough charm conflict resolution savvy, and communications skills to persuade RantWoman that she should add your preferred tools to her find a project that needs it and purchase list. Chances are, this might lead to a conversation about self-employment and ways to finance a suite of preferred tools, desired device and other paths to liberation from library realities.
No, at the moment, RantWoman does NOT have money to pay for graphical prowess. Instead RantWoman suggests that the author may fit in well at the friendly Neighborhood Center or that hanging around the Friendly Neighborhood Center is also an opportunity to hone things one is good at while Dealing With things in one's head.
Examples of Dealing With Things in One's Head:
--One former staffer was at least as sports-conversation challenged as RantWoman. She also liked to file, as in Really Liked to File. RantWoman needs someone around who Really Likes to File. Bingo. Teamwork practice on both sides.
--A different staffer Liked To File, sort of. She was certain that things In English should be filed according to Spanish alphabetization rules. She was passionate about this certainty, passionate to the point that one day she had a 30-minute argument in Spanish with her supervisor. This did not lead to a long career filing at the friendly Neighborhood Center...
--This post's author touts her conflict management skills while also demonstrating a flair for overachieving in the realms of conflict. RantWoman is not sure whether these gifts would be of help if for instance other Friendly Neighborhood Center... participants were having one of their periodic "I am more bipolar than you are" moments, but at least the atmosphere would be different from the library. In other words, if RantWoman has not completely scared this poster away, consider this celebration of #digitalinclusion an invitation co consider volunteering for a spell at the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing.
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