Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Frustration Lab goes to church

The Frustration lab at the Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing is taking a break from several participants' persistent gravity issues and stylistic chuckholes along the borders between MS Word and Duxbury, the braille conversion software. It's time for another fabulous episode of #DisabilityinChurch or in underpowered nonprofit or...

Dear Beloved Community

Thank you so much for asking whether the new electronic tool you just announced today is accessible. ;-(((

How the bleep should RantWoman know? This is the first RantWoman has heard of this tool.

(insert digression for another time about community and email)

How about as a reasonable accommodation going forward, you please consider asking RantWoman whether a tool is accessible BEFORE you announce that it is the tool of choice?

Hint: you could also use the Google with name of product and accessibility as a search string. Some products even have something about accessibility on their websites. Whatever the Google says, even if there is decent automated testing, there is no substitute for live tests and for asking in advance..

It's not that RantWoman promises to be an entirely reasonable person, RantWoman is into the concept of a gracious and forgiving God. RantWoman in "a little less than God" mode has also been known to consider flogging, but RantWoman ardently hopes the beloved community can help her stay somewhere in the vicinity of reasonable..

Some accessibility problems are catastrophic. Some products have the kind of tech support who receive bug reports and even promise to fix them. Sometimes, people around RantWoman squeak by because RantWoman can make eyeballs work if absolutely necessary.

In any case, thank you for listening. Please consider the problem prayed over. Please also send me the link and I will report....

Faithfully

RantWoman

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