#disabilityaccessibility — Public Fediverse posts
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Finally I think I've found a suitable portable computer https://www.waveshare.com/pocketterm35.htm
A linux #RaspberryPi5 pocket computer.
Mostly working with a built in physical keyboard (so it'll work within my medical limits), under 1/2 the price of Smartphones with physical keyboards that are questionable in being able to be degoogled.
which is to say with a free tailscale account https://tailscale.com/pricing#why-does-tailscale-use-a-seat-based-pricing-model
I should be able to email back & forth with my spouse as needed when I'm on the go.
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CW: Medical scheduling mess
So the specialist have rescheduled his next visit yet again, without my spouse's consent or at least tried to, this time he at least got an email we both understood to be yet another incident of this pattern of ADA & overall attempts to invalidate the basic rights of people who aren't in inpatient care, to control their own schedules in visiting Dr's. He emailed back to refuse the newest date as at this point it's a refusal of theirs to provide the service of said physician..
After last night's rains, that kept us up most of the night, neither of us really have the strength to handle a local clinic visit, so as shitty as their system is, we used their general online contact form, to message our cancelation & request of reschedule via email.
*Patient portals at neither set of Dr's offer scheduling via using said portals, so our request for emails & not portal use isn't at all hampering scheduling. The fact that they still somehow don't seem to have it register as anything but an attitude problem of ours, that we can't use voice calls to schedule & reschedule visits, rather than their not granting said reasonable accommodation of email use, is a major & continual problem.
The specialist clinic being really intollerably bad because whenever they screwup, by changing the schedule yet again & not informing us of this until we've arrived to try & checkin, they've cost us about 1.5 hours of time & 1.25 gallons of gas just to drive there, park & get from an on campus parking garage spot to their actual office, with travel on my spouse for that distance & time not being very easy lately. Yes....sometimes we've the energy to stopoff around 1/2 way back for a store trip beyond often needing to eat out to avoid seizure issues on the exhaustion, but that doesn't make the setup anymore sensible to continue. The very reason we're going there is because they're supposedly the closest place that'll treat his issues, which likely are largely responsible for how little energy he has to begin with, but for care to be possible the Dr actually has to show up for when we've scheduled an appointment with them & not have nurses trot out what amounts to my mind to a long excuse set over the reality of
"we will not treat you unless you're a pair of people who'll gladly hop to answer any & all our phone calls, continually change your schedule in whatever ways we find convenient and accept our word as we pass along second hand, the easier for us to manage & track treatment methods from the Dr, to avoid you bothering them with more visits."#ADA #DisabilityAccessibility #MedicalCare #Communication #Anemia
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CW: Hot take
@pixelate yeah, as much as this irks me, I agree. I'm not at all a programmer or coder, just a disabled person with mobility issues that basically make touchscreen use impossible.
Part of the issue for me is, even as there are organizations that cover my disabling medical conditions, none really cover quality of life measures, beyond "join a support group based on & in Facebook" & "get a caregiver to do whatever it is for you".
I'm planning on getting #Elementary within the next 2-4 months and as I can, with other projects, try to get physical keyboard smartphones to work with degoogled operating systems.
#Neuropathy #DegenerativeDiscDisease #hEDS #DisabilityAccessibility
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CW: Hot take
@pixelate yeah, as much as this irks me, I agree. I'm not at all a programmer or coder, just a disabled person with mobility issues that basically make touchscreen use impossible.
Part of the issue for me is, even as there are organizations that cover my disabling medical conditions, none really cover quality of life measures, beyond "join a support group based on & in Facebook" & "get a caregiver to do whatever it is for you".
I'm planning on getting #Elementary within the next 2-4 months and as I can, with other projects, try to get physical keyboard smartphones to work with degoogled operating systems.
#Neuropathy #DegenerativeDiscDisease #hEDS #DisabilityAccessibility
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@the In part because of the state of my home but in part over my mostly seasonally flaring medical conditions, even as I have been pretty continually using computers of this general type consistently for about 15-20 years, I've not had them enabled to make calls for over about 10 of those years.
This is also why/how I know virtual keyboards don't work often for me at all, because of how often I've had them fail me.
*Most of when I regularly had them enabled, physical keyboards were common.
This adds to why I really do consider them very separate but also why as I basically look to complete my transition away from big tech operating system ran computers, beyond my enjoyment of having #CalyxyOS for a while on one device, I really do need this to be a complete transition to having my computers back under my control.
*When you've got Google or other AI/LLMs embedded in said setups & automatic by the provider set times for updates, you don't at all have that control at all.
#DisabilityAccessibility #Smartphones #Hardware #ComputerHardware #OpenSource #BigTech
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@the this keyboard ability, is something I've not yet seen in OS reviews but as I consider which distribution(s) to get, it's definitely a sizable factor, because even as I'm fine for now in using a mouse, I don't know how long-term I'll maintain that status, as my spinal derived neuropathy slowly progresses.
This is also the mainstay of why I'll be sure to have a full keyboard, to include the F keys, toggle & numeric keypad, because that should maintain my ability to use computers better long-term.
*My best guess is that I'll be fine for another 5, maybe 10 years but after that it's going to be questionable.
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@the Those screws let me know when tight physically if I have it connected or not, and I don't need to be able to feel my fingers fully either, I can listen for when they stop & thusly abrade my fingers a little. This makes the computer system more #Accessible to me without the BS of "hiring help" be it in person or considering a remote diagnostician to tell me if my USB tip is worn out or if I've not pushed it in enough, as I can't even tell when I've got full sensation on said garbage. #DisabilityAccessibility #DVI #Enshittification
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@cyberseckyle At the rate of convergence, without some meaningful rebellion, they're going to be giving the "choice" of either voice control, with biometric ID autofill every computer, with digital assistants & AIs pre-installed or virtual keyboard & autofill with digital ID/biometric ID for everything, by 2035.
This is why, even as I don't really have skills in this realm, since I can't physically use a touchscreen to any degree of accuracy more than 1/2 of the year and neither mainly used form of biometric ID will work for me. I may well end up building things myself, during one or 2 of my "best time" stretches from the pi's on up.
*My spouse being a hearing aid user, I don't really have a use for a smartphone to talk to him or anyone else, when I'm out on my normal 20+ mile drives for various errands, but now it's either a "dumb phone", to make texting harder, even as those are far more durable or the only satellite communication device with a keyboard, which are easier to use but I'd need to do so outside & have sensibly timed message receipt even more questionable than cellphones.
Everything, especially stores, having a "smartphone app" thusly overall doesn't help me & many others who will never have & be able to use a dozen apps on their smartphones, just to do what coupons & appointment confirmation slips used to.
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@cyberseckyle I see this overall as a bad trend, increasing autofill on the software end & increasing lights, including backlighting on keyboards as a mess for the hardware end.
My neuropathy isn't that bad yet (& a few months a year I've still got full sensation) but it's bad enough that I need a clicky keyboard to help me to know when I've pressed a key, and backlit keyboards are painful to see.
We overall used to have a greater diversity of designs, which helped disabled pick what was best, without paying extra for true customization and that's a larger problem I'm seeing, which includes #FOSS having open source hardware that mimics #BigTech in having under basic 3 designs with 20+ options that have the tiniest of differences between them. #TechAccessibility #Diversity #DisabilityAccessibility
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#DisabilityAccessibility #BigTech
https://mastodon.accessinformationnews.com/@news/114035868587422278
In looking through this I see 2 huge flaws -
1. (beyond mastodon)These are big tech extensions/parts & thusly they're privacy disrespecting pieces of trash.2. On the accessibility group/features - they're really only meant for #VisuallyImpaired & #HearingImpaired folks, beyond one that's for temperature regulation issues
*I'm not saying the groups these are meant for don't matter but the one I'm in & need help with is #spinal.
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@ArtseaGardener @ahermitforhire I really love to use all 3 of these entities, but view them as different in main purposes. #JohnnySeeds is for things I want to grow in large quantities outside, to replace grocery store staples. #Fedco is for diversity of tastes and colors, at good & ethical prices, that's stable in it's general midrange production. The experimental network is where I find the niche items that I can use & mix around for my #DisabilityAccessibility needs, as I try different growing methods with their items.
#DecoupledAquaponics #PlantDiversity #Gardening #Seeds #SustainableAgriculture
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CW: Tech & accessibility the promise & the failure
Any company, & the larger they are the worse this is, that offers the "tradeoff" of greater #DisabilityAccessibility for less privacy, isn't an ally to disabled people nor to real #TechnologicalInnovation but rather to greed & authoritarianism.
The great promise that computers hold for disabled people is greater individual autonomy but if/when, as is the case with spying computers (one's that collect & transmit data, that's sold, repackaged & resold repeatedly, as it's also given to govts) by the nature of the failure of those systems to work when that spying is even paused, they do not actually grant that autonomy, rather they make the abusive people/entities of disabled people less accountable for said abuse.