Kat Q

@kataquin.bsky.social

Blind Chicana putting her life back together 🌅 Accessibility agitator || ✨Feral chaos gremlin✨ Questionable decisions powered by Gentoo 🐧

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Finally got on mastodon! It's even accessible and useable unlike this hell hole. Y'all should follow me there. @rootkat@kolektiva.social ... until I finish setting up my own instance, anyway.

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Hi friends, dire times again. I've got 6 days to figure out how to *not* get eviction for Christmas. Please donate what you can, and share share share. Keep a disabled queer household with a retiring Guide Dog off the streets! gofund.me/dfb548522 #MutualAid

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Hey y'all — could really use some help. Finances are more than tight. Electric is heading for a shut off. More importantly, the cat and dog are going to run out of food before next payday. I know we're all struggling, but please, anything helps. conundrum9999 on venmo and cashapp

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Hey y'all — could really use some help. Finances are more than tight. Electric is heading for a shut off. More importantly, the cat and dog are going to run out of food before next payday. I know we're all struggling, but please, anything helps. conundrum9999 on venmo and cashapp

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Bills stacked up fast; I'm $200 short for the rent check — which was already sent off and just hasn't cleared yet. So I desperately need help getting that last $200 ASAP. Please help — c: $conundrum9999 V: conundrum9999

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Missed some of my daily posts. Last week was rough. Really sinking in how left out I've been after doing the minimal work to implement an accessible interface to this thing. Really fucked with me. As a result I fell behind on work and am now paying for it by not having rent money.

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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 23 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 22 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

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Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 20 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

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Update: It's not inspiring that blind girl had to make her own accessibility tools while y'all were just over here having community and doing nothing about it. That's actually an an indictment of you. Doublyy so if your first reaction was inspiration and not guilt.

KKat Q@kataquin.bsky.social · last yr.

"Wow Katie you're so cool and that's so amazing that you made an accessible bluesky client for yourself. How inspiring!" There — I said it for you so you don't have to be an ableist cunt.

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Oh no really — ableism looked great on you for the last 2.5 years — don't pretend to care now. I don't need your performative solidarity. I clearly have to just make the world more inclusive to blind folks by my goddamn self.

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Not that I expect any of you to do anything or say anything or acknowledge me in any way. Y'all were fine just ... abandoning me for the last couple years so it's ok. I actually don't expect much from you. Go ahead and like this and move on. Scroll on past. Don't own your complicity. I get it.

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If you used to interact with me on twitter — or you're part of my Portland community — know that I am so betrayed, upset and disappointed in you all. I'll get over it because I have no other choice if I want community. But y'all really need to do the fuck better.

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Me: Hey comrades bluesky isn't accessible. Comrades: But the alt text! Me: there's more to a11y than alt text comrades: *tags bsky support once or twice* Me: ... me: ...? me: ... Also me: Well guess I'm fixing it myself.

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Do you feel shitty? Do you feel ashamed? Good. DO that more. If you don't then you're an ableist piece of shit and get the actual fuck off my timeline and out of my "community".

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Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic Pathetic all of you "allies". Making me make my own accessibility tools.

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I'm not a front end dev. How many of you are? How many of you front end devs call yourselves an ally? Already had the skills? And in 2.5 years not a single one of you fucking tried? Reached out to me to help solve the problem?

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And now I'm just furious that you all let it go on this long and forced me to make my own fucking accommodations — again? Are you fucking kidding me? It was this simple and not a single person from bluesky devs to allies to random devs just .... fucking fixed it?

KKat Q@kataquin.bsky.social · last yr.

At first I was so excited to be able to scroll the timeline. To read all your posts -- finally! To see so many names I used to see on twitter. So much info I've been excluded from the last 2.5 years.

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At first I was so excited to be able to scroll the timeline. To read all your posts -- finally! To see so many names I used to see on twitter. So much info I've been excluded from the last 2.5 years.

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In Portland, "community" looks like all your comrades leaving you out in the cold, not standing up for you, not stepping up to help — and then cheering for you when you solve the problem your fucking self. Thanks for making me have to make my own bluesky client, assholes.