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 here are some things that would help me as a blind person regarding online accessibility (mobile for me):

- all apps should display all text sizes (iphone goes up to 310%)

- all apps should display bold text if it's turned on in the system settings

- there should be a standard for text size; if my text size is 100% across all apps, then an instagram post, a toot, a text message etc. should all be the same size, no more "instagram and tumblr are always slightly smaller for some reason" bs

- an app's formatting (such as buttons, alerts etc) needs to be compatible with large text! large text doesn't help me if all the buttons are suddenly overlapping or i can't get out of an alert window because they forgot to program the ability to scroll. no more overlapping shit, no more missing shit, no more "i can't get out of this window without closing the app and changing my text size"

- usernames, channel names, all word  and sentences should be fully visible even with large text! i don't know what channel "# ge..." is on discord. find a way to make it visible, either make it multiple lines, give me the ability to side scroll or make it move like a spotify song title

- make sure things that shouldn't be affected by large text aren't! if i need to scan a barcode and my large text settings make it unrecognisable to the machine, that's unhelpful 

- all apps should have a light mode and a dark mode! certain conditions make it easier to see light mode, others make it easier to see light mode

- dark mode should be as high-contrast as light mode, i.e. white on black, not white on dark grey

- probably have other options beyond regular dark and light mode

- on apps that let you customise your profile a lot visually, give the option to view it in your phones' settings, i.e. if someone's got a dark red on black serif-font tumblr, i wanna be able to make it into a white on black plain font tumblr

- alt text should be accessible without a screenreader 

- there should probably be a dedicated field for video descriptions too

- apps that give hashtags a different colour than the rest of the text should let you choose the colour

- all apps should let you view someone's profile picture in full size

- this one is specific to instagram: let us fucking zoom in normally! why do i have to do finger gymnastics just to stay zoomed in and read text on a picture? the zoom should work the same way it does in my photo library and literally everywhere else

most of these shouldn't be that hard and they would make my life a hell of a lot easier. i'm tired of running into issues because i'm too blind to read regular size text.

i WISH it was as simple as "describe your images" and "no fancy fonts", which is something people can easily choose to do to make things a little more accessible, and if they don't, i can unfollow and surround myself with people who post accessible stuff.

but all of the things i listed are things done my developers and not regular users, it's stuff i can't just ignore by surrounding myself with people who care about blind accessibility if the people who create the spaces don't care about blind accessibility.

and that's without getting into android's "large" text.

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here are 6 things i learned in 6 years of being out as nonbinary (it was my 6th coming out enbyversary on the 3rd):

1. not all nonbinary gender is derived from male or female.

when i first learned of nonbinary, i thought the gender spectrum was a triangle with male, female and agender being the corners and people could slide around on the sides or in the middle. i learned that nonbinary is way bigger than that, which not only helped me with my own self-discovery as a maverique but also to understand other people's experiences better.

2. a lot of trans and nonbinary people are still very attached to gender-related binaries.

ignorance is bliss, this isn't something i was aware of until about 4 years ago. terms like male- and female-aligned used to be very common and were used in a binary way. people love categorising especially nonbinary people by AGAB.  transmasc vs transfem is pretty much treated like a binary. and 2 years ago people started with the men vs non-men bs.

3. binarism doesn't describe a general antinonbinary sentiment, but bigotry against cultural genders.

we have the terms racism, classism, sexism & ableism, so binarism makes sense as a term for bigotry against nonbinary people, right? wrong. binarism describes the imposition of the western gender binaries onto cultures that recognise more than two genders. the -ism term for nonbinaryantagonism is exorsexism.

4. there are a lot of people who treat nonbinary as a blank slate to project whatever is convenient for their argument upon.

we disagree with you, we're evil men. we have our reproductive rights taken away, we're pure women. nonbinary isn't a single third gender but also nonbinary men and women don't exist because the only way to be nonbinary is to be neither. people can't make up their minds.

5. almost every single nonbinary term either gets a lot of hate or ends up being rebinarised.

people hate the word enby because then we can talk about ourselves using a noun which gives us the tiniest bit of legitimacy but that's reserved for men and women. people hate terms that describe attraction to nonbinary people because to them we're not a valid group of people to be attracted to. transgender used to mainly describe nonbinary people, now it has binary connotations and we're still pushed out of it. genderqueer used to describe people we would now call nonbinary but binary people decided a term that doesn't include them isn't inclusive enough. there are people who are trying to turn nonbinary into a set of beliefs that binary people can follow rather than an identity.

6. binary people will think you're a cringey weirdo no matter what, so you might as well prove them right.