• Wren@lemmy.today
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      13 hours ago

      I can agree everyone should get to enjoy equal access to the web and still believe censoring user names is nice. There’s gotta be a balance between accessibility and preventing harassment.

      Have you asked OP to link the comment in the post text?

      How about a transcript for the image? That way user names could stay blocked.

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        12 hours ago

        Have you asked OP to link the comment in the post text?

        Yes: that would certainly reveal the names.

        There’s gotta be a balance between accessibility and preventing harassment.

        Easy: don’t harass. There are better controls on harassment by others than breaking accessibility & all the other considerations (usability, web connectivity, authenticity, searchability, fault tolerance) like reporting abuses.

        Transcripts still break web connectivity (to explore context) & authenticity.

        Your approach requests OP conduct/persist definite harm to speculatively prevent indefinite harm someone else won’t necessarily perform. How is requesting definite harm to an uninvolved party nice or right?

        Everyone has moral agency to do the right thing here, and respecting that would be just.

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          12 hours ago

          If your goal is accessibility, you’re taking quite a long walk to get there.