#disabilitydongle — Public Fediverse posts
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Silicon Valley's latest "invention" for the disabled is about as useful as a chocolate teapot 🍫☕. The "Disability Dongle" is yet another over-engineered solution nobody asked for, proving once again that tech bros think empathy is something you download from the App Store 🤦♂️📱.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #SiliconValley #InventionFail #DisabilityDongle #EmpathyInTech #TechBros #HackerNews #ngated -
Silicon Valley's latest "invention" for the disabled is about as useful as a chocolate teapot 🍫☕. The "Disability Dongle" is yet another over-engineered solution nobody asked for, proving once again that tech bros think empathy is something you download from the App Store 🤦♂️📱.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #SiliconValley #InventionFail #DisabilityDongle #EmpathyInTech #TechBros #HackerNews #ngated -
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183665
#HackerNews #DisabilityDongle #SiliconValley #Accessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion
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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183665
#HackerNews #DisabilityDongle #SiliconValley #Accessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion
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“Grad student’s VR app to help blind people navigate the world”
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/03/grad-students-vr-app-to-help-blind-people-navigate-the-world/via @VulpineAmethyst:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@VulpineAmethyst/114196469660279877 -
“Grad student’s VR app to help blind people navigate the world”
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/03/grad-students-vr-app-to-help-blind-people-navigate-the-world/via @VulpineAmethyst:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@VulpineAmethyst/114196469660279877 -
UC Davis is circulating more PR about what they do "for" disabled people.
Read the UC Access Now Demandifesto and look up subsequent coverage in the media (the ones that aren't always spoonfed by UC Davis' expensive PR department) to see just how much UC Davis *actually* cares about disabled people.
https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #Ableism #UCAccessNow #DisabilityDongle
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UC Davis is circulating more PR about what they do "for" disabled people.
Read the UC Access Now Demandifesto and look up subsequent coverage in the media (the ones that aren't always spoonfed by UC Davis' expensive PR department) to see just how much UC Davis *actually* cares about disabled people.
https://archive.org/details/disability-equity-and-justice-demands #Ableism #UCAccessNow #DisabilityDongle
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“How to develop automatic French sign language?” (I machine translated that from French; the post is in French):
https://emmanuelle-aboaf.netlify.app/blog/article/comment-developper-la-langue-des-signes-francaise-automatique
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“How to develop automatic French sign language?” (I machine translated that from French; the post is in French):
https://emmanuelle-aboaf.netlify.app/blog/article/comment-developper-la-langue-des-signes-francaise-automatique
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@aardrian There's actual products which are 100x less clunky which pretty much achieve much of what that seems to (I'm guessing based on skimming the website video cos I can't parse French speech). OrCam is one example and various built-in options in iOS for sure.
Reinvented #DisabilityDongle which is clunkier and probably more expensive too!
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@aardrian There's actual products which are 100x less clunky which pretty much achieve much of what that seems to (I'm guessing based on skimming the website video cos I can't parse French speech). OrCam is one example and various built-in options in iOS for sure.
Reinvented #DisabilityDongle which is clunkier and probably more expensive too!
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Axios is essentially headlining with the business model overlays use: “Assistive technology is AI's next billion-person market”
The technologies it describes are not AI, even if there is some computer vision in there. Anyway, it’s just a CES marketing round-up with two simple caveats at the end.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/12/ai-assistive-technology-accessibility
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Axios is essentially headlining with the business model overlays use: “Assistive technology is AI's next billion-person market”
The technologies it describes are not AI, even if there is some computer vision in there. Anyway, it’s just a CES marketing round-up with two simple caveats at the end.
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/12/ai-assistive-technology-accessibility
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CW: Ranting, sarcasm, hot take, large tech event
@fastfinge Ha ha ha no.
It is literally a #DisabilityDongle fest. Feel good, achieve nothing.
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CW: Ranting, sarcasm, hot take, large tech event
@fastfinge Ha ha ha no.
It is literally a #DisabilityDongle fest. Feel good, achieve nothing.
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Still high on his own farts (and the music and editing and choice of language shows this is ~40 mins of click bait and a couple of real info), but part 2 of that social media influencer’s video about those color-blind glasses:
https://youtu.be/_QQtOv2PlOEEnchroma responded to the first video (though I am not sure it moves the needle):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZM2LyU8g8 -
Still high on his own farts (and the music and editing and choice of language shows this is ~40 mins of click bait and a couple of real info), but part 2 of that social media influencer’s video about those color-blind glasses:
https://youtu.be/_QQtOv2PlOEEnchroma responded to the first video (though I am not sure it moves the needle):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZM2LyU8g8 -
The #DisabilityDongle that are color-blind glasses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppobi8VhWwoFrom a Twitter blue-check social media influencer a bit high on his own farts, but he does hit the obvious issues.
I had a person suggest (in jest?) that it would be cheaper to ship these glasses to their color-blind customers than it would be to update the colors in their design system.
Then I had an obligation to explain color perception to them and why the glasses were likely a lie.
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The #DisabilityDongle that are color-blind glasses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppobi8VhWwoFrom a Twitter blue-check social media influencer a bit high on his own farts, but he does hit the obvious issues.
I had a person suggest (in jest?) that it would be cheaper to ship these glasses to their color-blind customers than it would be to update the colors in their design system.
Then I had an obligation to explain color perception to them and why the glasses were likely a lie.
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Hacking in an ableist world: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldin
#DisabilityDongle gets all over the media, but rarely are disabled people's own strategies and hacks published.
This article talks about crip-led info sharing and hacks (interim and final solutions) by disabled people for disabled people and the obstructions like long waiting times and healthcare funding that exist.
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Hacking in an ableist world: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/care-tactics-mauldin
#DisabilityDongle gets all over the media, but rarely are disabled people's own strategies and hacks published.
This article talks about crip-led info sharing and hacks (interim and final solutions) by disabled people for disabled people and the obstructions like long waiting times and healthcare funding that exist.
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Following on from my thread on #DisabilityDongle yesterday (https://disabled.social/@NatalyaD/110005416668199560) which got some good discussion.
I found some more excellent links. So here's a refresh and new thread.
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Following on from my thread on #DisabilityDongle yesterday (https://disabled.social/@NatalyaD/110005416668199560) which got some good discussion.
I found some more excellent links. So here's a refresh and new thread.
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@bright_helpings @JessTheUnstill
Looking again at the Press Release-toot and indeed the webpage again some things (very common #DisabilityDongle negative things) that jump out at me:
1) Toot/presser/webpage doesn't mention any collab with VI folk.
2) Product webpage is barely zoomable small images with no ALT text, mouseover text "product image 1/2/3" = inaccessible.
3) £300. That's not entry level cost.
4) Mentions high lead-time, not sure this product exists except as fiction for clickbait. -
This chess set for visually impaired people smells very like a #DisabilityDongle to me https://disabled.social/@bookhousegame[email protected]/109996324419217574
I know a blind Master chess player. Don't think he had issues with usual pieces.
If this was just "a cool set" that'd be fine, but faux-inclusion makes me uncomfortable!
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This chess set for visually impaired people smells very like a #DisabilityDongle to me https://disabled.social/@bookhousegame[email protected]/109996324419217574
I know a blind Master chess player. Don't think he had issues with usual pieces.
If this was just "a cool set" that'd be fine, but faux-inclusion makes me uncomfortable!
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I have been thinking a lot about the term "disability dongle" that was coined in 2019 to describe those 'technical inventions for disabled people, usually by non disableds'.
Examples include: sign language gloves, overly-clever canes for blind people, many standing/magic wheelchairs.
https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/ is a long article about the term, meaning and issues that #DisabilityDongle things bring up.
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I have been thinking a lot about the term "disability dongle" that was coined in 2019 to describe those 'technical inventions for disabled people, usually by non disableds'.
Examples include: sign language gloves, overly-clever canes for blind people, many standing/magic wheelchairs.
https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/ is a long article about the term, meaning and issues that #DisabilityDongle things bring up.
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@MerylEvans Has anyone used the #DisabilityDongle hashtag here yet? I would credit the person who coined it but my memory is so bad that I forgot their name.
Anyway, enjoy this old meme I copied from the bird site.
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@MerylEvans Has anyone used the #DisabilityDongle hashtag here yet? I would credit the person who coined it but my memory is so bad that I forgot their name.
Anyway, enjoy this old meme I copied from the bird site.
