[DragonL80]

As a developer who's not blind beyond a pair of glasses due to being nearsighted, but with other quirks that make me different, like being trans, it's hard to not help but notice not only the privilege that the sighted of us have, that nearly all of us take for granted, but what I find really striking is the sheer amount of emotional labor that sighted people expect from the non sighted in relation to their non sighted-ness. And I guess I really shouldn't be that surprised because it seems like that's the case with any sort of disability or Quirk or thing that makes someone different in a significant way from the statistical mean average.

Kudos to all of you who did that, and do that emotional labor for everyone without even so much as calling it out, I recognize it and while I also do it as well so people understand a different point of view I know how tiring it can get. And sincerely thank you for that point of view and the resources provided in this post thread. I know that your challenges in computer accessibility are ones that I had not really considered much Beyond just you know knowing that blind people use computers and there were probably blind devs obviously, but not having the fortune to work with any as of yet it's not been something anywhere even close to the Forefront of the accessibility challenges that I've considered. Which is quite silly considering it's as plain as the nose on my face, and yes pun intended :) . And using that emoji just made me wonder how well do screen readers handle emojis? I can only imagine what ascii art sounds like to a screen reader. Thinking about it further I realized that the only blind person I have ever personally known that I'm aware of that used a computer on a regular basis and played games, I used to play with in a MUD back in the BBS days of the early 90s.

Anyway to those of you who have challenges or lack of sight thank you for your Insight and perspective into those challenges you face every day and deal with every day. And show us that the human body and mind is incredibly resilient and adaptable.