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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 19:25:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I heard the term "TABs" for the first time, in an accessibility context. TAB stands for "Temporarily Able-Bodied", and is a term that puts a focus on the fact that having a disability or being able-bodied is not an essential trait, it's where you are in life.

   Of course, some people may be able-bodied their whole life, and you should build universally useful things not because you might personally benefit but because it's the right thing to do. But I think the term is an interesting twist on things, that might help people put things in perspective.

   This post describes it well:

   disabledfeminists.com/2010/02/…

   #TemporarilyAbleBodied

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 19:31:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      It's impossible for a computer nerd to hear "TABs" without thinking about the age-old conflict about tabs vs spaces for indentation of program text.

      In the disability context #TabsVsSpaces could be about how people without disabilities go and design bad spaces that work only for them.

      Just to confuse things. 😅