do colorblind people consider themselves disabled https://bark.lgbt/@nycki/115968101609639436
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@hipsterelectron a close friend of mine is red/green color blind, and is a very talented professional visual artist. likewise, one of my mentors as a graphics programmer is red/green color blind. my understanding is that both individuals consider it to be more of an occasional annoyance and not any significant impediment to their chosen careers. my guess is most don't consider themselves to be disabled
@aeva this troubles me
@aeva i think it's useful to view it that way but if that approach isn't available nothing will change
@hipsterelectron but things have changed though. colorblindness accessibility modes have become a lot more common, there's a lot more materials available now to explain how to validate stuff for colorblindness readability, and average quality of said accessibility efforts has generally improved significantly, or so I'm told
@aeva more generally i want people to overcome the perception that disability is a personal weakness as opposed to a more general understanding of the human condition
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it appears they likely don't have protections under the ADA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness it's also very curious that it seems highly specific to northern european men who are not renowned for their sense of solidarity
@hipsterelectron caucasians are the pugs of mankind ;)
what would be the connection between color-blindness and this supposed lack of solidarity (which i don't believe. racism is a universal human feature)?
@lritter the OP asks if colorblind people consider themselves disabled. this is in fact a sense of solidarity. QT describes a roundabout way they choose to make up for what appears to be a disability. it's curious that this terminology was not used there
@lritter one alternative approach would be to develop standards that allow for others to make websites accessible to the colorblind. the ADA mention was intended in this regard. it's well known in scientific figures that certain color gradients are not accessible to the colorblind. this is something that admits a greater deal of study if we allow for that angle
@lritter i develop emacs plugins for my incredibly small working memory which i consider to be a disability and couch in those terms. i think it's important to consider the highly nonlinear relationships between what gets considered a disability and why certain features are not marked as such even if it could radically improve people's lives to do so.
@lritter a culture which prides itself on independence is less likely to be one which admits the disability designation for itself, particularly for invisible disabilities. i have frequently had to convince others close to me that my invocation of disability is quite serious and not cynical.
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@hipsterelectron has already been done for AAA games.
@hipsterelectron anyone needing glasses is disabled. but i think the severity matters. you can in both cases kind of fake your way through daily life without assistance.