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can we talk about how censoring names is useless and how it's inaccessible please ??? - a thread written by a blind person
to preface i'm not saying "stop blaming mcyttwt for trending things" i'm saying that there are better ways to stop something from trending that actually work and that aren't textbook ableism.
privating so you don't trend things and moving your mcyttwt tweets to another account
privating so you don't trend things and moving your mcyttwt tweets to another account
are methods that work just fine, don't trend over important topics, and aren't ableist. i'm upset that twitter just constantly lets us trend instead of giving that platform to important things, but censoring names isn't the right way to go about all this because
they can still and HAVE trended in place of the actual cc's name.
you can be an activist, but censoring someone's name isn't activism. it's inaccessible.
you can be an activist, but censoring someone's name isn't activism. it's inaccessible.
onto thread
here is one example of screenreaders reading the censored tweets.
i can't understand it! i'm sure you can't either.
ableism is defined as "discrimination in favor of able-bodied people". the censoring is in favor of able-bodied people. they can understand these tweets. when i rely on a screenreader, i can't.
ableism is defined as "discrimination in favor of able-bodied people". the censoring is in favor of able-bodied people. they can understand these tweets. when i rely on a screenreader, i can't.
i'm legally blind. without my glasses i literally require a screenreader to function. if i stare at my phone too long with all options for bigger fonts so i can actually see without my glasses, i'll lose my vision. a screenreader is my only option to navigate.
so when mcyttwt constantly ignores blind people for activism that doesn't work, and has been proven to not work, why does this keep happening? why are blind people an afterthought? you should always be thinking about accessibility.
my tl was full of things i couldn't understand and i ended up just logging out. it hurt my head to even be on the app because everything sounded so jumbled and weird. nothing that mcyttwt did today to stop from trending was accessible, and it didn't even work.
"K4.rl" still trended. i tried dming accounts, recommending that we don't censor names and just go private instead, it only takes a thousand people to trend something and censoring names just wasn't going to work. but my concerns got pushed aside in favor of able-bodied people.
i can't access these tweets! i have as much of a right to them as able-bodied people, but they aren't accessible to me, and until someone says something about it the fandom is going to keep doing this activism that just ends up being ableism.
so how do we fix both problems? how do we not trend something and be accessible at the same time?
the solution is simple - go private.
the solution is simple - go private.
everyone went private around #.footballtwt so i can't see why we shouldn't do that again. we all have the capability to go private so just go private! it doesn't impair your ability to spread awareness unless you're actively contributing to the #. in which case,
you can make a private to tweet about mcyttwt. if you really don't want to overshadow something, just take the option that's going to 100% work. we've already seen censoring names doesn't work.
tl;dr - censoring names isn't the right way to stop something from trending. it can still trend, it has still trended, and it fits the textbook definition of ableism "discrimination in favor of able-bodied people" as screenreader users cannot understand the censor.
just go private instead, it's guaranteed to work, most of the fandom has gone private before, and your tweets will actually BE accessible thank you <3
the only one that work are ones that take the "e" out of g_orge (for MY screenreader) because gorge reads the same
i didn't expect so many people to see this but hi!!! i hope this continues to inspire people to speak out, especially my fellow blind people, you're not overreacting about what you face i promise :)
and i appreciate u all who are sending the thread to other people too, thank u :D
also i answered the emoji key question here 
https://twitter.com/3ndrprls/status/1382022106896994307
https://twitter.com/3ndrprls/status/1382022106896994307
