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Happy Friday ☀️ You know what annoys me? When people knowingly choose the aesthetic option than the one that’s accessible and inclusive. We - humans in general - get so caught up with what “looks good”, what’s “acceptable”, and worrying about what other people may like/think/say so much that this often leads up to disregard an entire community (which happens to be the biggest minority in the world). “I’m not going to add Braille to this menu because that’s going to look really shitty.” This goes with opting for easier choices, too. “I’m not going to add captions to this video because it’s easier if I don’t.” I’m not going to pretend that I haven’t made mistakes regarding accessibility on my page in the past (and perhaps I still am unbeknownst to me). But it’s one thing to genuinely not know any better, and then to be asked repeatedly - by a disabled person, nonetheless - to improve something and then to not do it for superficial reasons. If you disregard inclusion of the disabled community at the mercy of what non-disabled people might say or thing, this is what you’re saying: non-disabled concerns are more important to me than disabled integration. You’re choosing one not-very important thing over a very-important thing. That’s ableism. The message accessibility sends is much greater than the message of aesthetics. (ID in comments) Hashtags #Disability #Disabled #DisabilityInsight #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilityRights #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityStudies #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityAdvocacy #DisabilityJustice #Accessibility #Inclusion #Advocate #Advocacy #Ally #Allyship #DisabilityAlly #InclusionMatters #Accessible