Anonymous asked: On iPads, GIFs don't play unless you press a button to let them play, so, not completely ignorant statement, you just have to understand other people sometimes and not call them out just because you didn't understand a sentence.

Their statement that gifs don’t play automatically on ipads was true, and I have no disagreement with that. What I do disagree with is the assertion that “Epileptic people should just buy ipads”. Around 50 million people in the world are living with epilepsy, 90% of whom are living in developing regions. How are they all going to ‘“just buy ipads”? 

The implication expressed was that a person with a disability buying a £500 piece of equipment is a preferable solution than their fellow internet-users taking 5 seconds out of their day to be considerate (cost: £0) - surely I don’t need to unpack how discriminatory that is?

Notes

  1. bellalison said: Oh wait, it covers any kind of photo in general. Sorry.
  2. ocdhedgehog said: Any decent browser these days has a .gif blocker add-on, which is free. I don’t think that epileptics should be forced to use them, but they are out there.
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