Melissa Roe on Nostr: nprofile1q…9pye9 You are 100 percent right. I recently had a friend tell me they're ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqzwzcgjztdn95g0cnkk0z9mz393xzzc4c69qqp78350sy83lfrjxqy9pye9 (nprofile…pye9) You are 100 percent right. I recently had a friend tell me they're sick of going on mastodon because people always compalin when someone doesn't add alt-text to an image. Yes, alt-text is an important to the VI community. I'd wish for people to have the same equal access to images they can't see, but some people have made it their mission to get upset when alt-text isn't used. Yes, alt-text is important, but there are much bigger fish in this community to fry! Especially now, with the picture describing sources with generated AI, people can get a some-what description if they need a picture described. We've really lost touch on the real priorities that should be mattering to this community, such as increasing educational opportunities and encouraging more blind people to join the workforce. With us being such a small population, a 70+ percent unemployment rate isn't enough of a glaring oversight for people to see what's wrong with the big picture here. I really want to know who wants to maintain this narrative and why, because it's time to move over and grant new leadership to a generation who is passionate about real change. A 70+ percent unemployment rate in any population is not okay, and we can stop some of the wasteful spending in our government if people actually did their jobs and gave students what they need instead of the recommended set of equipment and instructional methods. We have so, so much work cut out for us, but no one's really willing to dedicate the time to fix it.