Was that a dinosaur? 2.0

Tag: accessibility

  • Confident Cane User

    Currently on Twitter a wilfully ignorant person is sharing a TikTok video of a confident white cane user crossing a busy road on a pelican crossing and then consulting their phone. The video has a caption that reads “What in the universal credit is going on here?” The tweet itself reads “It’s a miracle” The…

  • Writer’s Block

    Frequently on Twitter people ask for ways to get through writer’s block… Here’s a suggestion I make. Describe your photos so someone like myself who is blind can understand what is happening in them. The small pink cyclamen, hunkered at the base of the hedgerow, shakes like a defiant fist behind a barricade of grass…

  • Circumstances Beyond Our Control

    That’s most definitely what today could be entitled. Woke up with everything aching after a couple of hours moving around and adding the last bits to my backpack I tried it on and my body said are you insane I’m not walking to the station so took up Cat’s offer of a taxi. Having got…

  • Handwriting:- My Nemesis

    Everyone loves getting an unexpected card don’t they? My kryptonite is being able to read the message inside. I love the boldly printed Moon Pig cards my daughter sends me- the font is very plain and because it is bold (thicker than normal print) and a large I can decipher it with my own eyes……

  • Voting day

    Here in the UK we have local votes going on today. We are choosing town councillors which pays for verge/hedge maintenance around town, refuse/ recycling collection, social housing, etc (it is county councillors who hold the purse strings for the budget that pays for road, police, school, social care (adult and child), etc locally (basically…

  • Be a joyful helper

    Twitter (and other social media) can be heaven or hell. It’s not fun when a chain brand puts up a tweet like this screenshot as my screenreader cannot read it sensibly This is how it sounds using voiceover. https://youtu.be/MSZr6Exl-QM?si=ldSfECP2FJ76He6L In a tweet like this sighted people automatically and subconsciously ignore the squares and squish the…

  • A stressful journey after Christmas in Cleethorpes.

    Due to problems I was having with this blog (I couldn’t get posts to publish) I wasn’t blogging over Christmas but wanted to share this thread of tweets I wrote the day after the journey in question “Yesterday’s train trip home was a bit chaotic thanks to #StormGerritSome delays meant getting home nearly an hour…

  • Why I use an Apple Watch.

    A comment on a Twitter/ X post got me thinking “Have never understood why anyone would pay hundreds of pounds for a smart watch…🤷. For the record a watch only ticks the relevant box if it has hands on it that rotate around the circumference of the dial!” The original post was a poll asking…