It seems, I've only now discovered this article by @RareBird15: https://lanie.work/technology/privacy-is-a-luxury-i-cant-afford/. This is the truth as it is.
All those leftists who preach inclusion and happiness for everyone (which, as we all know, is already something worrying because there is no one condition everyone can be happy in, except for one: if you are a dictatorship and you eliminate people who are not happy under your power — anyway). Many people especially in Europe now talk about degoogling, de-microsofting, de-appling, de-whatever-ing. Although I have no spare time for it, I read and keep reading those articles. And not a single of them, not an F'ing single one, mentions #Accessibility for the blind, chronically ill, for people with parkinson's, for all of us who do need accessibility. Inclusion is good, but only on paper and only for certain groups. Use various pronouns (even non-existent in the current language), don't pronounce this or that word, don't have a different opinion on some subjects, and first and foremost, don't forget to preach inclusion. For everyone. Yes, for everyone — except for at most 25% of people on this planet who *really* need accessibility, accomodations and particular treatment.
H is for hypocrisy there.
and no, you won't convince me that privacy-schmivacy or something else is more important then accessibility. Accessibility is *not* a luxury — it's how we live. A talking computer or a talking smartphone is the only way for us to communicate with such devices (there is Braille, I know, but it's not the point of this discussion). A website suited for keyboard and screen reader operation is the only website we *can* work with. Again: it's not about what we *want*, it's about what we *can*. So if your website is a million times private, sovereign, open-source and what not, but if it's not accessible — I *cannot* work with it, hence it's not for me. If your operating system has no screen reader or is not suited for keyboard and screen reader users — I *cannot* use it, hence it is not for me. And no, I won't go and fix everything, as most of the open-source community suggests. I have no time and no mental force to fix OS kernels and office suites. Of course, if you hire me on a contract as an accessibility specialist (or not me, anyone of us who is knowledgeable enough, I'm not jealous!) — then it's another thing.
That's that simple. And, as we are here, if Meta glasses can help me to read a sign or a menu in the restaurant — I'll strive to buy them, because I need this accomodation. I don't know why I have to repeat such things over and over and over, — I don't know why Lanie has to, why Elena @elettrona has to — but we repeat this and we will do it on and on and on, as much as they want us to shut the F up.
P.S. for those AI haters: This was written with no help of AI.
#OpenSource #Privacy

@menelion @RareBird15 I am an accessibility professional. A blind person, a woman, an HIV advocate, and a LGBT infinite plus ally. So, please, you're all right about accessibility, accomodations, assistive tech that the market offers, but please, NEVER mention my name again while talking against pronouns, gender difference, etc. No, I'm not saying you shouldn't share what you think. I'm saying that I won't support any battle using this tone. You are creating walls exactly like others are. It is not, and must not be, a matter of right/left, or similar stuff.
It's true: most people talking of de-google etc, aren't considering accessibility, it's the same thing I'm screaming for months. Exactly like I'm blasting every diversity-inclusion course I get involved in as a spectator, because they give graphics, percentages, talk about religion, color and sexuality, but everyone comes out without knowing about assistive tech; no one talks about mental health, cancer stigma, HIV stigma, it seems that just 3 kinds of "diversity" count for marketing.
We have what we have, but the right way to act is not spitting on them, but giving our contribute whenever and however we can, to improve what we have, writing and saying it all.. And, we also need to be rational because if we vote far-right in order to eliminate far-left hypocrisy, the risk is to find accessibility breaking down even more.

Saying "mine is important, yours is not", in my language we call it "the war between poors". Definitely it can't work!

What I need to remind, is that our current blind-compatible tech, that is google and apple, amazon, microsoft and meta, could one day stop working on accessibility all of a sudden. If they are able to change "lake of ontario" to "lake of america" after president screams, they can fire a thousand accessibility teams by just clapping their hands.
They can use us, then throw us away or, worse, use us to make the world accept normalized mass-surveillance. So, what we need to fight for, is not left against right or lgbt rights vs. blind people rights. We must be more constructive, to obtain what we need: a technology supporting both accessibility, privacy, security, and everyday life safety.