Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

this morning's first order of business is called "Deafblind woman vs. Candex." Candex is the system that Tulane University, amongst others, uses to pay guest lecturers or people not on staff. But in order to get paid i had to navigate the website which appeared straightforward but whatever they did caused my focus to bounce all over the place. So I would get to a form field, such as my name, or address, and i press the cursor router button on my braille display to tell the website that here is where I want to enter text. Does my cursor appear there? NO! NO! it does not! It instead appears in the form field immediately above it. Once I figured this out I realized that if I went back down to the field I wanted and pressed the CRB again, that time it would work. This happened for every.... single.... form field on the website. And there were A LOT! For my name, address, bank information including account and routing numbers which i needed to retrieve from my bank app and paste into Candex. Then I needed to upload a company w9, which I did and attempted to save but it crashed the website because there was a little box you needed to check swearing that the information you provided was accurate but I didn't see it because of my spastic focus. So I got to do the ENTIRE form again! Entering the 20 different things into the 20 different form fields and having to summon the focus twice for each one.... Then I re-upoloaded my w9 and this time found the checkbox and tchecked it and PAH! OMG! I was able to submit my request for payment. Holy fuck y'all! I should get extra pay just for wrangling their payment system. And this was all in all, a relatively good experience because I could troubleshoot the problems myself, but it is only a little passed noon and I'm questioning why I'm sober right now! Because i did this all on a 40 cell braille display. which means I can only read 40 characters at a time.... This is what it's like to be a deafblind business owner using the internet in 2026.... *sighs* but, I prevailed! I am victorious... or I will be once Tulane pays me.🧏‍♀️🦮😈

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in my opinion the answer is if a picture is worth a thousand words, you'll actually have to write those words bucko. "studio ghibli style trending on artstation" isn't gonna cut it. use your typing skills for something useful, and better yet, let me read your words directly. stop holding out on us