vorvayne | Entries tagged with disability

So it's sortof difficult to post to dreamwidth.

Background: there's something up with my eyes. Getting to see a Dr is complicated rn for a long list of reasons - the pandemic is only 1 of them - but it looks like some of my eye muscles aren't working properly, so I get double vision, which is worse when I'm at, hm, a computer screen distance from text, or when I'm looking to one side (left is worse).

What I've recently been doing to work around this is just going, fuck it, I can read on my phone just fine, and doing everything I used to use a laptop for on here. The narrow phone screen that I can hold at any distance is an advantage. But thumb typing is extremely annoying and the worst, especially if you have very small hands and can't comfortably hold the device and tap anywhere on the keyboard area without straining your hands or wrists (sigh), so I bought a cheap bluetooth keyboard. Success! It's actually working really well, similar to but not nearly as annoying as the magnify function on a PC or laptop.

The thing is, dreamwidth's 'post entry' page doesn't resize appropriately for mobile like, say, twitter's does when you're posting an entry. It just looks like it would on desktop, but on a tiny tiny screen which makes my vision issues worse, not better. Sigh. You can pinch zoom in, of course, but then you can't actually see the entry box and it zooms out again when you try to type text in it, etc. Annoyingly, increasing the text size doesn't solve this problem in either chrome or firefox.

Which, you know. Not ideal. My current workaround is to do normal zoom, then set the text size in the rich text editor REAL BIG, type my entry - which I'm doing rn - and then when I'm done I'll select all and put it bag to regular size so when it posts it displays normally.

Sometimes being variously disabled is extremely annoying, actually.

Anyway I still want to be here more; it's overall better for my brain, which desperately needs long-form stuff, and to be on twitter less, and to actually have more in depth discussions than you can have on twitter. It's just currently a bit of a faff, but honestly, this isn't the worst workaround. I was groaning trying to figure out if I could do email posting, or copy and paste somehow, but pressing the resize button isn't too fussy. If something is too fussy and hard to set up, *that's* inaccessible too bc of the ADHD.

Which is all to say: I'm here. I'm gonna engage with your stuff, eventually. I'm excited to share a hundred probably very obscure posts about, e.g., the 8 fucking hours of lectures I listened to about history and philosophy of science the other day! My urge to post is insurmountable!!!!

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