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Disabled Community Megathread from November 17, 2025 to November 30, 2025

I have always been fond of music, especially when I'm feeling down. Now, I don't think there's enough popular songs about disability and how we struggle each day. But I stumbled across a song the other day that, while it's not about disability, I've been listening to quite often when I feel like I failed somehow. When all that's happening is really just me struggling and making it through another day, for better or for worse, I like to remind myself that I am perfectly incomplete, but I am good the way I am. I hope that maybe it helps you too.

Friendly reminder to please use ::: spoiler spoiler tags and content warnings [cw] Hexbear CoC ::: for sensitive content that falls under Hexbear's Code of Conduct. You can find the spoiler tag here:

After clicking it, just substitute the second "spoiler" with your content warning and the three underscores ( ___ ) with your sensitive content, and you're all done.

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"Disability" is an umbrella term which encompasses physical disabilities, emotional/psychiatric disabilities, neurodivergence, intellectual/developmental disabilities, sensory disabilities, invisible disabilities, and more. You do not have to have an official diagnosis to consider yourself disabled.

Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.

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  • I started using orca, the screen reader, to test how things are for blind people, and I think there are improvements that can be made on hexbear, both on technical level, but also on a user level. Can we try to add an alt to the image in the mega body.

    Noting down things:

    • On posts, the comment icon/svg says the post id for some reason?
    • The context links both say "Show context".
    • Profile pictures just say "image".
    • The expand post button is just "button".
    • The share button (three connected dots) is just "button".
    • The moderation history buttons in the more dropdown is under the same

      <li>

      , so the screen reader can say there are 4 items, when there is (in practice) 5. But also, the

      <hr>

      is in it's own

      <li>

      so there can be sometimes correctly (but for the wrong reason) 6 items.
    • It says the •. But not the pen so it's not clear when a post is edited.
    • Thumbnails just say "expand here"

    Testing area:

    Yeah... it of course says "show"

    ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior

    • I fully agree with you, there's a lot we can do better. What do you want me to add? Really not good with formatting, but I will try my best.

      Oh no :/ I mean, I simply copied the one from the trans mega, maybe I should at least change the name of the image? But that doesn't explain the ID thing. Maybe something to ask the admins?

      Adding to the last part, we might be able to change that word to what actually happens, namely "removing the blur", again, with help from someone who's more tech savvy than I am.

      I'm noting suspicious behavior, I think this poster may be a cat.

      • Right now is simply says "Show [...] clickable", so it's like this:

        for sensitive content that falls under Hexbear's Code of Conduct. You can find the spoiler tag here:
        Show [...] clickable.
        After clicking it, just substitute the second "spoiler" with your content warning and the three underscores ( ___ ) with your sensitive content, and you're all done.

        And while we can't do anything about it saying Show, we should include something like "an arrow pointing to the spoiler button" ("spoiler button" is what it narrates when I highlight the button)

        The "nothing things down" is for myself, I'm talking about the small comment icon on the front page, so don't worry about it. If it's something users can do better I'll point it out like I did with the image alt.

        ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.

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