James Scholes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@FreakyFwoof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FreakyFwoof</span></a></span> Excellent. Here's a similar story.</p><p>Where my partner grew up, there isn't exactly an abundance of money, education for disabled people, positive attitudes about it, and so on. She had a student who had gone blind very late in life, and all their family could afford was a cheap Chromebook.</p><p>Now: You and I know that ChromeVox is an objectively bad screen reader in many ways, and would struggle to use ChromeOS as a daily driver. Nevertheless, within a very short period of time, he was keeping up with the news, streaming music, and listening to audiobooks. The joy when he would turn up for a lesson and say something like, "I want to show you this piece of music or video I found," rather than "I couldn't do X this week," was quite infectious.</p><p>He's now consistently scaring the crap out of all the ableist folks in the town by refusing to stay at home, walking everywhere, and generally not giving a fuck.</p><p>Not sure if this counts as <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/NoonScrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoonScrolling</span></a> given that I wrote it, but it is only 4 PM.</p>