Monday, October 12, 2020

This post brought to you by ... ADHD

 Today's #NDEAM etc awareness post brought to you by Additude Magazine

Warning:  the post may skip around enough to make readers wonder whether RantWoman suffers from ADHD or in any case suffers enough to want to risk all the distressing drug side effects listed in the ads at the top of the page. For the record, the site has several self-tests. RantWoman did one and scored well below the threshold defining the condition on that particular test. In other words, RantWoman probably gets to manage occasional flakiness, need for a secretary, and "deadlines focus the mind" perspectives on procrastination on her own without the drugs advertised at the top of this page.


Digression due to judicial confirmation hearings and hyperventilating about whether or not a new Supreme Court Justice would for the third time in the history of the law again fail to completely overturn it. Yes, when one is dealing with a severely disruptive  mental health condition, one's ability to work at all may depend on consistent access to health care coverage. But in America, especially in the gig economy, which comes first, the job or the health care coverage? 


RantWoman keeps wondering based on medias streams about how badly the President's eldest son seems to fear people having health insurance. Maybe it's just RantWoman's wonky eyeballs: RantWoman foresees that if the Supreme court overturns the (VERY POPULAR) Affordable Care Act, the population could just go all in for #MedicareForAll.


Digression regarding accessibility  #a11y #ux

--This site could really use a Skip to Main Content link at the top of everypage. On this site, that would be a tragic way to avoid having to read / scream one's screen reader over the entire site layout before hitting the content one came for. RantWoman does not recommend skipping this content entirely. RantWoman likes to know a little about what else is on a website even if she is not planning to interact with all the content immediately.


--RantWoman can navigate sufficiently smoothly that she would come back to the site, but RantWoman also might use her search engine to see what other resources there are too.


--RantWoman put  Accessibility  into the search bar. RantWoman was hoping to find some kind of 654 results turned up. RantWoman is not the most adroit screen reader user in the world, but RantWoman had trouble navigating the results counts and only absorbed details visually thanks to screen enlargement.RantWoman was hoping for something about the site's efforts to comply with some accessibility standard. RantWoman found 654 links about all kinds of things somehow related to ADHD.


There. Now that RantWoman has waded through critical digressions, now RantWoman would be able to concentrate on the content of the page.


Aren't accessibility tools grand?

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