It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Consider this statistic. The USA now has one in four adults on psychiatric medications for a mental illness. 25% of our population is mentally ill? Consider this one in five children in the USA are receiving pharmaceutical drugs for psychiatric conditions from the age of four.
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We are unique in thought and perception and the ability to take that to such an abstract extreme appears to be quite unique from others in our own species and any other life form on Earth that we are aware of. Human diversity is mostly related to perception, experience, identity.
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I want to start a discussion about mental illness for years the #a11y community has talked a lot about being neurotypical vs neurodivergent these are good for bringing people to a point of understanding something about human beings we don't address in accessibility very well.
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Gareth has nailed something very important here. A bad headache is uncomfortable and can occur from this sort of thing. Is that a disability by legal standards? Not in the USA. Accessibility is not about legal disability it is about the condition of Being Human
A former colleague once filled the on-wall monitor with fast, flashing gifs. He thought it would be funny, despite me pleading him not to. 2-3 hours later once my visual migraine had stopped and I could focus/see properly again, he understood why. Accessibility matters 100%.
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There you are Kelly! I was just thinking of you and talking about you the other day from back in our Early Times pre web on the genie disabilities Round Table where you taught me the term tab temporarily able-bodied. It's in a talk and in my book I am forever grateful to you.
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I am so glad you knew that and I am so grateful you advocated knowing of your father's condition. This isn't disability this is Humanity we are all of us going to face horror Los trauma and tragedy we are all of us going to die.
When I was actively designing for web, & later, when I was working on web projects with other designers, I always advocated for no/minimal movement onscreen for similar reasons. My dad had psychomotor epilepsy, so I knew about flashing/moving visuals that could trigger seizures.
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The screams the shots fired Echo along Las Vegas Boulevard a massacre from a single shooter 5 minutes after my mother died. Do not tell me you are sorry for me please. do tell me you will take accessibility seriously from now on. It can devastate a family destroy hope and love.
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I now know how my husband must have felt that day and I know how I feel these years if I had been there she would not have died maybe be alive even today. I failed to fight for her to save her she spent 3 days on life support died five minutes before I heard every shot and scream
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He died in February my mother had beaten her brain cancer beating it while her cheating partner kept me away the more I became suspicious of him so she apparently fell hit her head had a massive brain bleed and died. No day passes I don't apologize for not fighting harder for her
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He was left 4 hours not knowing whether I was alive or dead calling the hospital often as he could calling a friend who was able to come to the hospital and get me and bring me home to him when he apologized to me because she couldn't help but he did help and I survived he didn't
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There was no internal bleeding and the fact that I had such good medical care and close enough to the hospital and fast enough emergency response in my neighborhood and access to blood products and skilled surgical and medical responders I was able to go home that night to him.
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I have a very mild form of photosensitive epilepsy but a mortal condition of bone marrow aplasia which has been extended using off label G-CSF medicine you paid for. The seizure and fall caused a hematoma and cut along the right temporal side of my head external to the skull.
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He was able to reach 911 grappling with a phone very upset the ambulance came very quickly. I have no memory but they took me to UMC emergency he couldn't go with me and I am have no memory other than coming to in the ER operating room whole blood and platelets being transfused
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The third time after asking there I was at the desk and I have no memory of what occurred but what my husband a physician himself who could not move to help as I had a seizure and fell to the floor smashing my head against the side of a table then go still as blood rapidly flowed
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Using a web-based Communications application in 2016 a colleague posted three or four moving gifs at a time I begged her and everyone to please not do this and I explained why. It was for accessibility so who cared right no one I guess.
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Working at my desk a few months before my husband passed away he was by then not only paraplegic but losing sensation moving up toward his neck. This is due to three massive tumors from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam as a Navy Korman who became a physician serving rural poor.
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I have a deeply disturbing personal story about what can happen when multiple movements on a screen can do. I'm going to tell it to you now I don't know if I ever have please use this as a cautionary Story not sympathy for myself but this is how serious accessibility really is.
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My darling web designers and developers who delight in motion, animation, vídeos, marquees, transitions, flickering, blinking, automatic scrolling for myself and many others with neurological conditions to please provide users with control options and never autoplay. #a11y
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It's funny theoretically and so I'm theoretically laughing. I will follow up separately so as to not appear ungrateful for the thought and the humor intended. I'm grateful for being thought of and I'm grateful especially for people who seek to make me as well as others laugh.
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