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        <title>&#34;On Access Trauma,&#34; Accessibility, and Interdependance</title>
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<p>I just wanted to shout out the <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com">Sightless Scribbles</a> blog post,
<a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/on-access-trauma/">&ldquo;On Access Trauma&rdquo;</a>. I think it offers a good glimpse into
everyday things people with different abilities have to deal with. For instance, I had no idea that PDFs are often
inaccessible.</p><p>It also introduced me to the idea of <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/living/in-a-world-that-often-interprets-care-as-burden-interdependence-should-be-valued-beyond-the-disabled-community-8376271.html">Interdependance Care</a>.
I thought this part was insightful:</p>
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<p>&ldquo;&hellip;through our valourising of independence, we have in many ways invisibilised the very nature of interdependence that drives our lives. The growing of vegetables and fruits by farmers - that we buy and consume. The assistance needed in producing a computer - that I use to write this column. Somehow these forms of dependence on others was valid because we all needed it. Hence, it was ’normal’.&rdquo;</p></blockquote>
<p>Reading all this reminded me to check my site with the <a href="https://wave.webaim.org/">Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool</a> and fix a few things.</p><p>Anyways, I strongly encourage subscribing to the excellent <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com">Sightless Scribbles</a> blog. <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/">&ldquo;The Colonization of Confidence.&rdquo;</a>
is another great post from him.</p>
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