its so awkward when people ask me why i dropped out and i have to be like "inadequate disability support" bc no one wants to hear this. they're always like i thought they had to provide that though isn't it the law? girl you might want to sit down i have some bad news about the litigation-based enforcement of the americans with disabilities act
then if i do say that theyre like, couldnt you sue? well theoretically maybe but not without spending more money than i have and putting myself through absolute hell. so no. no i can't.
One of My best friends had to drop out of College around 2010 because while the College in question did technically provide all of the PDF copies of all the text books He needed, what They didn't realize was that the copies They gave Him weren't actual PDF files of the text books but simply a pdf version of photocopies of the pages of those text books, which no accessible program or device could properly read back then. Actually, that's still a huge problem for those kinds of files even today. I tend to avoid PDF files if it turns out all it contains are photocopies of pages.
Anyway, My best friend had to drop out of College, and none of the People working in the College, least of all the people trying help with accessibility could understand why He did that. They all refused to understand that while They did indeed technically provide what should be accessible files, thus fulfilling Their mandate, the problem was the files in question were completely inaccessible, and thus They were failing the entirity of the spirit of what They were trying to do.



















