Idk man
Earlier I posted a blog post about a certain forum being inaccessible to the disabled. People had feelings about that. I checked my analytics, saw referrers from the forum, and unpublished the post. It was made during a fuming moment when I was upset about other, unrelated things.
But I don't regret the meat of the post. I regret a lot about how I said it, the fieryness and the anger, but not the main points about accessibility. The thing about being disabled is that the entire world has it out for you; it might not seem like a Big Deal, to you, the things I posted about on my now-unpublished post, but when you cannot engage with most sites on the internet because of your disability, shit gets tiring. (I sent the forums to multiple friends of mine who all told me the same thing--they can't read the custom fonts and the site is inaccessible to their visual conditions. Sorry, it is a problem!)
So yes, I made an upset post that was upset. I regret not explaining my personal issues with the forum in a more succinct and less angry way, and I regret involving too much personal emotion and detail (God Forbid! The worst possible thing you can do on the internet!) in that post. I sent it to multiple people out of fear it was "too mean" or too harsh, they all told me it wasn't. I may have been wrong. My goal was never to be a hater, but rather to get people to think about accessibility on the small web. It basically just turned into a rant post. I think I'm allowed to make rant posts on my own personal blog, but I did not meet the goal I was attempting to make. I do think though that if you want to make a project for the web, it has to be for the whole web, and I stand by that. I also think that if someone has criticism of your website or community, that's not the end of the world. Ultimately my point was that we need to do better as a movement for disabled people in the IndieWeb. Did I go about it well? Maybe not. That's up to you. I dislike the fact that I'm being treated as hysterical for providing criticism of accessibility or a lack thereof, and some people in the chatbox were extremely ableist, I felt, to me for mentioning my struggles with mental health. And my points were mostly ignored in favor of making me seem like I'm crazy when... I really just want people like me to be able to use the web. That's it. I'm a human being who gets frustrated. If you're allowed to be frustrated that I was unkind to your favorite webbed sight, which I apologize for, I'm allowed to be frustrated that me and my friends can't use that webbed sight.
I don't know, man. We'll all survive, probably.
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