alt Hacker NewsHuh, 2x is low even sometimes for sighted people.
Related, it seems like YouTube recently paywalled speed increase beyond 2x. Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
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entrope • today at 2:34 PM
> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
Seems like it would be a win-win to have a user setting to opt out of video in exchange for ungating that feature.
> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess.
True.
We can frame it even more strongly: "default societal practices actively discriminate against people with disabilities; they intentionally, consciously choose to make life harder for people who're disadvantaged".