Comment by DonHopkins

It boggles my mind that there are actually "Anti-Accessibility" trolls out there, lurking under their rocks, angrily eager to criticize and shut down any discussions or efforts towards accessibility and inclusivity by attacking the messenger instead of addressing the message.

But then again, there are also many "Anti-Woke" trolls gleefully leaping to the defense of Nazis and racists and misogynists and bigots, so there you go, that's where we are.

It directly relates to the MAGA philosophy of seeing empathy as a weakness, championed by someone who got elected by mocking a reporter with disabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA

One of their ilk, aaron695, is actually in this discussion with us right now, buzzing around like a housefly, in the next message under mine. Apparently he is regularly attracted to accessibility discussions, which feed his anger. And yet again, he's posting useless anti-accessibility drivel that got his message rightfully flagged and dead. Set showdead=true to see his useless anti-accessibility rant if you don't believe me or think I'm exaggerating (but TL;DR: his incoherent rant cotributes absolutely nothing interesting to the conversation, which is why he's so frustrated and impotent, so it's not worth the time to read):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297083

You're never going to convince those people that accessibility is good by explaining that it's in their own self interest. They'd rather cut off their nose to spite their face. The only thing that would ever convince them to support accessibility is if it actively HURTS someone they don't approve of.

Here's what I wrote 13 days ago to one of them, who was too busy to read the wall of deeply researched and linked text that I wrote about Dasher, but he decided to take the time out of his busy life to complain to me about posting too much text about Dasher without him actually bothering to read it, and not even bothering to comment on the topic itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44173863

>I'm sorry to hear about your disabilities of poor reading comprehension and trouble parsing text, and I'm envious that you have so much free time and nothing better to do, that you can take time to complain about your impatience with and intolerance of my writing. But it would have been easier, more efficient, and less stressful for you to simply ignore things you're not interested in rather than unconstructively whining with off-topic posts that benefit nobody. Obviously you don't appreciate how lucky you are to be able to type such a useless post so easily. I'm not even asking you to be empathic, or give a shit about anyone but yourself: if you're lucky enough to live long enough, you'll need accessibility tools like Dasher too.