I did catch that, but thank you for clarifying, 'cos I heard it both ways first, and had to sort out, no, that doesn't sound like she's objecting (and if she were, wouldn't she say something more specific about it).
I get tired of how many people seem to think "accessibility" means "making special allowances for broken special people," rather than "making it available to more people." Or different groups of people, 'cos the ficathon ideas being discussed here won't work for a lot of people, but the ones who *love* banging out 5-15k word stories from a two-sentence prompt, with a 6-week deadline and heavy penalties for dropping out, are pretty much covered. We get lots of stories that are produced well under those settings. We don't get many stories that are produced on softer schedules, with less secrecy, more amnesty, more options for partial participation--and I'd like those. I'd like more fen to be involved with fic writing, and I'd like the chance to read their efforts, which I'm not gonna get if ficathons are all (or almost all) strict-deadline no-second-chance affairs.
And not just because of disability issues. I'm sure there are people who would LOVE to participate in Yuletide, and never can, 'cos their work/school/social calender is just booked from mid-October to the end of December.
I'd like to see less defensiveness when someone suggests more accessibility. Especially when they're not saying, "this thing here should change," but "it'd be nifty to have something similar to this thing here, only with some changes."
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I get tired of how many people seem to think "accessibility" means "making special allowances for
brokenspecial people," rather than "making it available to more people." Or different groups of people, 'cos the ficathon ideas being discussed here won't work for a lot of people, but the ones who *love* banging out 5-15k word stories from a two-sentence prompt, with a 6-week deadline and heavy penalties for dropping out, are pretty much covered. We get lots of stories that are produced well under those settings. We don't get many stories that are produced on softer schedules, with less secrecy, more amnesty, more options for partial participation--and I'd like those. I'd like more fen to be involved with fic writing, and I'd like the chance to read their efforts, which I'm not gonna get if ficathons are all (or almost all) strict-deadline no-second-chance affairs.And not just because of disability issues. I'm sure there are people who would LOVE to participate in Yuletide, and never can, 'cos their work/school/social calender is just booked from mid-October to the end of December.
I'd like to see less defensiveness when someone suggests more accessibility. Especially when they're not saying, "this thing here should change," but "it'd be nifty to have something similar to this thing here, only with some changes."