Icon.

All right.

Do, do, do, do, do.

I am going the right way, aren't I? I hope I am.

All right.

I was told that you don't have to constantly, um, you don't have to constantly scan, but there are times when I really feel like the traversal assist isn't working, [laughs] so...

So-

It's okay, I have a couple hours left in hotel.

because it was

so strange.

So, like, I would, um, hit continue, and then just nothing happened.

It's, um...

Yeah, I know.

Yeah.

okay

Cat

Yeah.

So I, I just need the, the, the, the, the, the technology to do what I tell it to do.

And, and if, if you are a, um, if, if you're a tech bro of any kind, and if you think, "Oh," like, "I'm going to design a screen reader that, that tries to interpret things that y- you didn't ask it to interpret," that to me i- is a, um, is a dystopia that I never want to live in.

But I do have, I do have, um, friends in the technology s- sector and they see that I'm blind, but they don't really understand my real struggle.

Right? So my issue is not that my screen reader isn't good enough or isn't, or isn't, um, intelligent enough.

Uh, my problem is, is that your HTML is not l- l- l- l- l- labeled.

So that's it.

[laughs]

Mm-hmm

...

even if it i- e- even if it is, uh, stereotypical.

Um, largely, um, non-disabled people, um, have much more of a green light to sort of tell our lived experience.

And, and I'm a sensitivity reader as well.

It really helps, uh, with w- w- writer's block or something.

If I'm having a r- really hard time writing anything, I love, uh, s- sensitivity r- r- reading for other people because it gets the creative juices flowing again.

Robert Kingett is an obscure, blind, and gay writer that is currently undergoing cookie withdrawal, but manages to write romance fiction featuring disabled characters and nonfiction that is a subtle cry for help.