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From: chagnon
Date: Apr 9, 2018 1:16PM

Being in the arts and design industries, I'm very familiar with Patreon. It was created by artists so that they could sell their work and retain copyright and monetary control over their intellectual content.

Basically, Patreon bypasses the traditional middlemen of agents, distributors, aggregators, etc. and lets artists retain more money from their work.

It's a great site for artists, as long as they don't use A T.

Much as I love my fellow artists, this group of people is tone deaf to accessibility. It really isn't on their "triage" list, as you found out.

Example: we're remediating a graphic design job/PDF for a design studio. For a list where they wanted checkmarks as the bullet character, they instead chose a funky looking square root sign. The designers want what they see, not what the actual character is, so we have to correct this so that screen reader users don't here ... "pack these items for your trip: square root toothbrush, square root clean underwear" etc.

It's not like they couldn't find a nice-looking Unicode checkmark to use instead of a math symbol.

They just don't have a clue about accessibility.

Robert, I hope you'll keep the dialogue going with them. In time, they'll come around. The question is why not do it now and ensure that 1. They maximize their business potential to include artists who use A T, 2. They maximize their revenue by including customers who use A T, and 3. They head off any potential ADA infringements.

—Bevi

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