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  • It is a toss up between tipping as wages and consumerist obligated gift giving.

    Both are ways of pretending we spend less because of how we see spending combined with shaming those that don’t want to participate in such a shitty system. Pay people living wages and I would be happy to tipping on top, until then I will continue to avoid going anywhere that has staff paid primarily through tips. I also refuse to participate in gift giving based on a day of the year because spending money without a real reason is not a sign of love or friendship, it is quilting people I to bejng good little consumers. Fuck Christmas especially.

    I will absolutely give people things and buy people things, frequently have friends and family try to pay for meals and whatnot first and bot in that stupid try two times or whatever bullshit. I will also tip well when I can’t avoid going to a business with tip based employees. But both are based on what I chose to do at the time and not because it is the regularly scheduled thing to do.











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    Yes, people who can’t read because they are blind would have accessibility issues…

    It is pretty much guaranteed that the images did not have alt text for screen readers and were not set up to be tabbed through for someone who needs to use a keyboard and not a mouse because of dexterity issues. Then there is the problem that there isn’t a lot of contrast, the text is angled, it isn’t clear what is clickable and what isn’t, and a bunch of other stuff that are issues for people well beyond colorblindness.

    While it could technically be created in a way for an alternate accessible way to interact they never really were. It takes a ton of work to make anything other than plain text accessible, and even that takes more work than just typing. It takes exponentially more work with something like this.

    Nobody bothered to take that time unless they were sued. I am currently getting a state agency through a complete website redesign because we could not feasible make the old one accessible, and that is only happening because we were sued as a state agency is obligated to make their site accessible. The first things to go was shit like this.