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I finished this up a few weeks ago & forgot to post.I went further than intended & did a full inventory of all spinning/weaving/knitting equip, books, videos, fibre, yarn (commercial & handspun) into Airtable. Absolutely love it! #RavelryAccessibility #OffRav /1 
I'm enjoying this way more than my original Ravelry data - I can customize it to emphasize what's important to me. Oh yeah, & no migraines. Just patterns left to do now. Those will take some time though but at least no more photos to take.😎 #RavelryAccessibility #OffRav /2
Here's what grid (database) view looks like. You can do formulas & lookups from other tables, etc. It's more powerful than what the data looked like in raw form. I won't lie-it was lots of hours to get to this point but #RavelryAccessibility #OffRav /3
"Isn't this accessibility thing just a conspiracy among white supremacist types who are ticked off that Ravelry banned support of Trump to make the site a safe space?" - a thread:
See also, related:
Short answer: No.
So, I tried logging back in to Ravelry using EMW's skin.
I still had eye strain within about 10 minutes. Nausea in about 30. I put up with it for about an hour. That's probably going to be my limit, if that. #RavelryAccessibility
I still had eye strain within about 10 minutes. Nausea in about 30. I put up with it for about an hour. That's probably going to be my limit, if that. #RavelryAccessibility
Why are users expected to hurt themselves, or find workarounds (that don't work 100%, unfortunately) just to use a website? It's on the site's creators to make it accessible. I can't stress that enough. And they've failed. #RavelryAccessibility
Anyone who tries to point it out on the main forums of the site is shut down. If you send them feedback, it goes ignored. Help gets offered and is disregarded. And everyone with health issues? Oh, please. We're all hysterical. #RavelryAccessibility
"Isn't #RavelryAccessibility fixed now? Because doesn't @ravelry know a lot about accessibility? And anyway, can't everyone just use a Stylish skin or something?" - a thread in multiple parts.
Short answer: No, no, and no.
Short answer: No, no, and no.
Long answer (VERY long answer, actually - sorry!): #NuRav had a bunch of different problems when it first launched. Some of them were improved or fixed. But many - including the ones which cause physical harm - were not.
Some of these problems do resolve if you put one of the available third-party skins over top of them (although how newcomers to Ravelry will know they should do this I've no idea, and shouldn't a website work by itself without outside help?). But for many people, they don't.
A followup on this retweet of mine, about an open letter from designers to @ravelry.
This letter asked for four things:
This letter asked for four things:
1. Hire an outside consultant, with no personal investment in the outcome, for feedback on web accessibility. There was an emphasis here that inaccessible user surveys will not give them the information that such a consultant will.
2. Until the new version is KNOWN to no longer be a seizure risk, Classic Ravelry should be the default everywhere.
3. Any changes made to the new version to restore accessibility should be the default, rather than opt-in features.
3. Any changes made to the new version to restore accessibility should be the default, rather than opt-in features.
I'm so angry that @ravelry is still trying to sweep their #RavelryAccessibility mess under the rug. By all appearances, it looks like they're banking on the fact that the majority of their audience won't know or care why this is so problematic.
So, in an attempt to combat that dependency, I'm going to talk about why accessibility is important, and why you should care about it, even if you're not disabled, even if you don't think you'll ever be disabled, and even if you don't care much about the needs of the disabled.
I'll start by addressing why Ravelry has to even be accessible. I feel like a lot of folks might think "accessibility" is just about making sure blind people can read a website, and blind people don't knit, so what's the big deal?
