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The issue is that we already have deeply inaccessible infrastructure and the little accessibility that we have is being exploited for profit (and made less accessible as a result)

for instance: a parent pushing a stroller and a ♿ user meet at a sidewalk like the one shown above. They can talk to each other and determine the best course of action, be it one backing up until they can wait in a driveway or carefully squeezing past each other without pinching fingers.

a major factor in this is that for the bot, disabled people are just an obstacle. For human beings, disabled people are other people who simply need more space/time/whatever. a robot is self-serving in how it moves and is incapable of making decisions outside of its objective.

a human being pushing a cart can see a wheelchair user and move out of the way. the bots are a genuine issue for wheelchair users (coming from a wheelchair user). if you dont need a wheelchair, i suggest you dont say that accessibility isnt a problem here. it is.

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gorgeous illustration but also i saw the caption before the drawing so i thought it was a reaction to a silly screenshot or something and was so caught off guard when i scrolled down 😭

tbh thats most public transit anywhere (i get about the same thing on the bus in a little college city)

if you spelled your name totally wrong it would be Edging Austin. isn't that scary?