Hello comrades! I am new to the world of reddit alternatives and have been interested in exploring welcoming anti-capitalist communities. I want to see a post-capitalist world in my lifetime, which means we are going to need to be open to new comrades of diverse backgrounds and abilities. With that in mind, we need to talk about the problematic signup process. In question here is the all important Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart every user must engage with in order to join the community. The current captcha process is very difficult for those with divergent visual abilities. As someone who relies on accessibility tools to interact with the digital world, I call on the techncs community to address the problematic choices in the sign up process. Additionally, consulting people with different abilities for input on technical architecture is a must to promote diversity in the community.
I think you should all chill out a bit in the comments. It is totally fine to hint at problems for disabled persons. Of course Op could have used different wording but I think their noble intent is clear. Now of course it would be nice that Op already presented a set of solutions to the problem they noticed but it is totally fair to not have them. I’m sure there are decent alternatives to visual-only captchas. So instead of telling Op to “fuck off” you could all be either ignore this request or try to actually be a decent human being and offer possible solutions. Now of course the admins have to decide it those other options are technically feasible. You have to keep in mind that many small instances do not have resources to those kind of technical experiments when they don’t work out of the box.
Yes the wording of this post is needlessly demanding, but people here blaming the disabled for a world that disables them need to think about their life choices.
You don’t tell a guy in a wheelchair to “just get legs” when he stands before a stair without ramp, you tell the guy who build the stairs to build a ramp.
Equally you don’t tell someone with impaired vision to “just host their own instance” you tell the guy who implemented the captcha to include an audio captcha.
Sure it should be done niceley and understanding from both sites, sure both should work on the solution, sure sometimes it isn’t possible to include everyone. But if someone would be to blame, its the ones excluding, not the ones excluded.
God, people show some solidarity for once.