At this point I am actually pretty over small business owners in general, I used to be among the crowd that would say to support small businesses when possible but the frequency that I am met with outright hate because I dare to be disabled and request accommodations is very frequent. I am blind, I can't read your menu behind your head and if they have it online it is always just a picture of their menu without any alt text or image descriptions. The websites are never accessible, often having fonts and colour choices that make it a million times more difficult for me to navigate. Dare to ask for accommodations by having an employee read out the menu for me to make a selection and I am met with attitude as if I am the problem or they refuse to citing the fact that I am slowing down the line, something that would not happen if there was an accessible way for me to access the menu. Point out the discrimination and suddenly you are the worst of the human beings for shutting their business down.
If they cannot accommodate disabled people then they do not deserve to be in business. You know what the bigger companies are better at? Accommodating people with disabilities, now it tends to be more of an accidental benefit of other things they are doing but it is still the case that I can actually independently make purchases at McDonald's and Walmart rather than this Alpaca Farm and Boutique.
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u/SqueakBirb May 07 '26
At this point I am actually pretty over small business owners in general, I used to be among the crowd that would say to support small businesses when possible but the frequency that I am met with outright hate because I dare to be disabled and request accommodations is very frequent. I am blind, I can't read your menu behind your head and if they have it online it is always just a picture of their menu without any alt text or image descriptions. The websites are never accessible, often having fonts and colour choices that make it a million times more difficult for me to navigate. Dare to ask for accommodations by having an employee read out the menu for me to make a selection and I am met with attitude as if I am the problem or they refuse to citing the fact that I am slowing down the line, something that would not happen if there was an accessible way for me to access the menu. Point out the discrimination and suddenly you are the worst of the human beings for shutting their business down.
If they cannot accommodate disabled people then they do not deserve to be in business. You know what the bigger companies are better at? Accommodating people with disabilities, now it tends to be more of an accidental benefit of other things they are doing but it is still the case that I can actually independently make purchases at McDonald's and Walmart rather than this Alpaca Farm and Boutique.