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Blaming accessibility tools for what people do with them is reactionary (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago by rosethornRangerTTV@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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People can do shitty things with accessibility. I could use alt-text on images to figure out who I could call slurs when I might not be able to otherwise.

That is not an argument against accessibility. People can potentially use their access to society to do harm, but not having access is guaranteed harm. It is not just guaranteed harm though, it is specifically systematic harm against disabled people on the basis of being disabled. Doing hierarchy because some members of another group might potentially choose to do hierarchy themselves does not reduce hierarchy overall, it makes it much worse.

Anybody who blames the accessibility tools themselves is a reactionary. This includes what people do with stuff like AI. No matter how much you try you will never go back to some ideal past. The AI is not going away. Your choice is simply whether or not you do hierarchy.

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[–] rosethornRangerTTV@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

well lots of people blaming AI art for things, when it is just a different method to make art, cameras a while ago following the same trend

Then there is the constant attack of service animals and such being allowed places. There are more I have talked about before but I can't remember them off the top of my head

it tends to be on a much more individual basis, peoples support of accessibility tools being conditional on whether or not they like that particular person. Similar to how liberals often try misgendering right wingers, especially trans ones like blair white and all that.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

So… nothing concrete about accessibility tools after all?