Re: Do you feel excluded?
I agree with that, social media is something I don't really get the point of. I do understand that, if we want to appear normal and well-adjusted to sighted folks, we should make an effort to get on their level, so to speak, and not having social media does kinda make you stick out like a sore thumb, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Back when I had my Facebook, way before meme culture took off, people would remove me from their friends list left and right if I didn't post for awhile. I know that's why they did this, because when I asked a couple of people about it, that's what they told me the reason was. I'm sorry that I don't feel the need to share every minute detail of my day. Not long after that, I deactivated my Facebook page. I still have it should I ever feel the need to get back into it, but I highly doubt that will happen.
As for the points raised about people not knowing what a screen reader is, I won't harp on this too much, since quite a few others beat me to the punch and made their points a lot more eloquently than I might have, but here's something to think about. If a sighted person barely understands what a cane is for, despite it being the most well-known symbol, for lack of a better term, of blindness, why should they think about screen readers? Things like that are not in the public consciousness at all. You really can't blame someone for not understanding that if they continuously call a cane a stick. I know some people care about that more than others, I happen to be one of the ones that does. Sticks are crude weapons or firestarters at best, and useless garbage being kicked down the sidewalk at worst. It's demeaning, and, while of course I'm aware that the average person means no harm when they call it that, it still bothers me. You wouldn't call a walking cane that an elderly person might use a stick, so why should our canes' functionality get diminished like that?
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