@deilanni have significant usable peripheral vision depending on how badly i'm getting day blindness but forms are always incredibly difficult for me
as my vision loss progressed i was astounded by the reality that neither my optometrist or vision therapist had large print or digital forms
the people who monitor my vision loss don't have accessible paperwork
that's how badly we're sticking to these systems
@deilannat the same time, i've dealt with the opposite situation
in college, my school's technology policy meant i didn't need an accommodation plan - i could just access everything.
occasionally a class would have a text that didn't have a digital version so i'd have to use the program to digitize my book after purchasing it, but i never needed anything with regards to my professors
except then i had one professor who was violating the technology policy in his emails and they were not accessible
and no one could figure out how to navigate this
because it wasn't violating an accessibility plan. but he was discriminating against me based on a disability (he told me that he knew more about screen readers than me and i was the problem not him lol)
it was eventually handled, but was made a lot more difficult
@deilanni do want to note that handled is... a word here
he was removed as professor of that section midway through an 8 week class - which is something schools really, really don't want to do
so i did not have to continue to deal with him
but nothing was done to consider the damage done to me. as is typical whenever there are accessibility violations or discrimination.
his correspondence with me was traumatic. i laugh about it here, but he really was not okay with the way he treated me.
that, was not addressed. in any way. not even in immediately obvious ways, like how it affected my grades and progression on my coursework, not just in that class but others.
the reality of accessibility failures - whether it's being told you're not human because you can't solve a visual captcha or being denigrated and harassed by a professor - is that we're always the one burdened with the cost at the end of the day
the end of every day
and we're supposed to act happy and pleased we were finally let in