Jack, I appreciate that your viewpoint is legitimate but I'm not sure it makes sense to write it here. If you don't care about accessibility for your personal journal that's your own choice to make, but as community mod I'd prefer if you kept your not-caring to yourself. This is a community for talking about accessibility issues and if somebody raises an accessibility issue and is told "oh, that doesn't matter" it's really not creating an atmosphere that's going to help others feel they can bring up their concerns.
In case you misunderstood, nobody was saying your personal journal (or even communities you mod) have to be accessible to the wider world. Jade suggested that IF it were a widespread problem we could write optional guidelines which would help people who wanted to make their journals/communities more accessible. Which I think is a great idea and will follow up.
In terms of accessibility it's not significant whether the breakdown is in a piece of technology or in my brain (or somewhere else). The effect to me is the same - I can't access whatever it is - and the easiest solution is still "well don't do that then" (in this case, don't change the text in question).
I am assuming that since you're here reading and bothering to comment that you do care about accessibility for your communities and you do have goodwill. I just want to point out that making private journals accessible and making public communities accessible involve exactly the same issues and requires taking the same steps.
Dreamwidth doesn't say "you can't make a totally inaccessible journal/community". We certainly wouldn't encourage anybody to do it, but (within the bounds of the Dreamwidth site's abilities) it's ultimately up to the community mod or the journal owner whether or not they follow any accessibility guidelines.
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In case you misunderstood, nobody was saying your personal journal (or even communities you mod) have to be accessible to the wider world. Jade suggested that IF it were a widespread problem we could write optional guidelines which would help people who wanted to make their journals/communities more accessible. Which I think is a great idea and will follow up.
In terms of accessibility it's not significant whether the breakdown is in a piece of technology or in my brain (or somewhere else). The effect to me is the same - I can't access whatever it is - and the easiest solution is still "well don't do that then" (in this case, don't change the text in question).
I am assuming that since you're here reading and bothering to comment that you do care about accessibility for your communities and you do have goodwill. I just want to point out that making private journals accessible and making public communities accessible involve exactly the same issues and requires taking the same steps.
Dreamwidth doesn't say "you can't make a totally inaccessible journal/community". We certainly wouldn't encourage anybody to do it, but (within the bounds of the Dreamwidth site's abilities) it's ultimately up to the community mod or the journal owner whether or not they follow any accessibility guidelines.
Ricky Buchanan