You know what’s funny? When abled people see some sort of accomodation (closed captions, image description, etc), their first thought isn’t: “Oh, this must be for disabled people!”.
No, their first thought is always “This must be for lazy people… Oh my god, are people so lazy that they can’t do *insert something that is easy for abled person but difficult/impossible for disabled person*?!”
(just take a look at posts criticizing captions for vines..)
Of course, when they realize it’s actually for someone disabled, they feel bad about it. Well, usually.
Sometimes their reaction is this: “Oh, but you can do the thing, right? It’s just so incredibly lazy of you to ask for accomodation!”
So, let me be clear: ASKING FOR ACCOMODATION ISN’T LAZINESS!
Just because you find something easy to do, doesn’t mean it’s actually easy for everyone.
We are not asking for accomodation because we are lazy and want to have everything easier than abled people. We are asking for them because we want to have acces to same information and opportunities as abled people have.
This has been a PSA.
captioned-vines this need to spread around. I’m getting irked at the amount of people complaining.
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