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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by burnished on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:19AM (#36939370)
Consider that everyone experiences being less capable at various points and to various degrees, even in an otherwise healthy life; injured, ill, tired, carrying too many groceries, bad breakup etc.

Designing for accessibility helps everyone. I attended a lecture on the topic and an example I found compelling was curb cuts - a person in a wheelchair makes the need obvious, but they are good to have for a variety of other reasons; pushing something with wheels, hurt ankle, being sick or absolutely ancient etc.

I agree that we don't need to self flagellate or see ourselves as deficient, design is hard after all.

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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by javajosh on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:15AM (#36942038)
Don't forget being pregnant or having to lug around a baby after it's born! Which is not an error mode. I'm well aware that "disability" is something we all go through; but my central point stands. It's not possible to accommodate all or even most types of disabilities and its reasonable to expect individual disabled people to BYOH (bring your own helper) in many cases, such as the OP's case of a speech disability wanting to do business over the phone. In other cases, like with ramps, BYOH won't help so its reasonable to expect/regulate those measures.
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