By the way you make a very good point about accessibility and the fact that you basically need two operating systems (the actual OS running on your PC and a modern Web Browser) to read simple text that should have been rendered as such in the first place.
Besides, why do I have to out myself as a blind user to be allowed to ask for plaintext postings without being immediately downvoted/punished? I think it is quite revealing about the audience here recently. And no, I am not writing posting for maximum popularity.
I reckon that's a figure of speech in my language that probably doesn't translate well (or possibly at all) to English. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending or to imply people with disability are actually poor. It's something more akin to the term "rat race", but not quite.
> why do I have to out myself as a blind user to be allowed to ask for plaintext postings without being immediately downvoted/punished?
You don't have to and that's not what I said. I said "If you made this about accessibility in the first place".
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Oh, and I didn't downvote, but probably the downvotes are more about the "as bad as Meta" comment without specifying you were actually talking about accessibility.
It gets to the point of absurdity when we expect to add more complexity with new workarounds to make things simple again.